If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
ISAAC ASIMOVNothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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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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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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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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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 greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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