Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
ISAAC ASIMOVWhen asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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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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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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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 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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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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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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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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