Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
ISAAC ASIMOVMaybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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There 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.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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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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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 first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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