If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
ISAAC ASIMOVAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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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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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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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