If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou 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.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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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 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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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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