The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
ISAAC ASIMOVMy feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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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 great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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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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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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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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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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