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.
ISAAC ASIMOVIf knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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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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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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