Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
ISAAC ASIMOVAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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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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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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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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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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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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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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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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