Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
ISAAC ASIMOVAnything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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