Education isn’t something you can finish.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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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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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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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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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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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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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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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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