Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
ISAAC ASIMOVInspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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You 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.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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 don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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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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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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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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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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