“People think of education as something they can finish.”
— Isaac Asimov
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
“However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There’s no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference – but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.”
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but ‘That’s funny...’”
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
“Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.”
“All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.”
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
“It’s the writing that teaches you.”
“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”
“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
“Any planet is ‘Earth’ to those that live on it.”
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
“I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.”
“The intelligent man is never bored.”
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
“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.”
“There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.”
“The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”
“There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.”
“The law of conservation of energy tells us we can’t get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.”
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
“Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.”
“Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task – such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping – I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.”
“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
“It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.”
“Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.”
“The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.”
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
“Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence.”
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
“Economics is on the side of humanity now.”
“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”
“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”
“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.”
“The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.”
“Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.”
“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
“If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.”
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