Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
ISAAC ASIMOVAny book worth banning is a book worth reading.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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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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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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The 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.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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And 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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