If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
ISAAC ASIMOVAny fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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 subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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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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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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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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