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.
ISAAC ASIMOVFeminine 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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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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