The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
ISAAC ASIMOVPeople think of education as something that they can finish.
ISAAC ASIMOVSelf-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.
ISAAC ASIMOVAny fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
ISAAC ASIMOVI do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOVOld people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt 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 ASIMOVThe Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
ISAAC ASIMOVAny book worth banning is a book worth reading.
ISAAC ASIMOVNever let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVI am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
ISAAC ASIMOVAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
ISAAC ASIMOVAnd above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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