No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
ISAAC ASIMOVI am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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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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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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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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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?
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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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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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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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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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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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