If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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It 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?
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