Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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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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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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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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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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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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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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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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