You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVIf my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Anything 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?
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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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.
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