Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
ISAAC ASIMOVAt odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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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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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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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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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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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?
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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