And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
ISAAC ASIMOVAnd above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
ISAAC ASIMOVTo succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
ISAAC ASIMOVNothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
ISAAC ASIMOVSelf-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
ISAAC ASIMOVIf knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
ISAAC ASIMOVHuman beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
ISAAC ASIMOVI do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
ISAAC ASIMOVI 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.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
ISAAC ASIMOVTo make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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