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 ASIMOVLife is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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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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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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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.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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You 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.
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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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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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