If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
ISAAC ASIMOVPeople who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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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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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 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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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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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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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