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?
ISAAC ASIMOVThere is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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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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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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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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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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