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.
ISAAC ASIMOVSelf-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.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
ISAAC ASIMOVI do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere 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.
ISAAC ASIMOVMan’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
ISAAC ASIMOVSince 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.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe intelligent man is never bored.
ISAAC ASIMOVI wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
ISAAC ASIMOVAll you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
ISAAC ASIMOVWas there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
ISAAC ASIMOVSo 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.
ISAAC ASIMOVNothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt 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 ASIMOVPeople think of education as something that they can finish.
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