Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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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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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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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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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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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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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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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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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