It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
ISAAC ASIMOV
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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