The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
ISAAC ASIMOVProperly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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