Isaac Asimov Quotes

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• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

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  Ignorance, Mean, Democracies Have

  "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

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• When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

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  Intelligent, Stupidity, Unsafe

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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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  Believe, Learning, School

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

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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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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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• The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

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  Way, Denial, Problem

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “The Gods Themselves”

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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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  Feelings, Like You, Should

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• What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

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  Habit, Muttering, Obvious

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  People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" edited by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 299), 2004.

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• The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

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• Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

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  Believe, Home, School

  "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

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• Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

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  Fiction, Today, Facts

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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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  Change, Believe, Thinking

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

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  Animal, Humanity, Pet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  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.

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  Diversity, Understanding, Humanity

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.592, Bantam

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• People think of education as something that they can finish.

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  Thinking, People

  "Conversations with Isaac Asimov".

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• The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

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  True Friend, Business, Learning

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• Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

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  Book, Reading, Book Banning

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• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

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  Lasts, Well Known, Victim

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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  Wise, Peace, Military

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.

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  Answers

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• Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.

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  People, Democracy, Population

  Interview with Bill Moyers on PBS miniseries "A World of Ideas" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 17, 1988.

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• My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

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  Jobs, If There Is A God, Feelings

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• I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But, Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.

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  Men, Symphony, Advice

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• There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

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  Death, Faith, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1971). “the Stars in their Courses”

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• Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

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  Sound, Being True

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