The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
ISAAC ASIMOVInspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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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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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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