When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
ISAAC ASIMOVIf 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.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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 day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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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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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.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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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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And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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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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