All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
ISAAC ASIMOVDemocracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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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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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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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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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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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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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 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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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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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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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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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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You 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.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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