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?
ISAAC ASIMOVPeople think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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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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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Education isn’t something you 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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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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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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