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 ASIMOVProperly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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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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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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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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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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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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