At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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?
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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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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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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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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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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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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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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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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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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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