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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
American Scientist
Born: Jan 2, 1920
Died: Apr 6, 1992
Ignorance Knowledge Life Science World You
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson Sylvia Earle W. Edwards Deming
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. Isaac Asimov
Life Good Democracy Knowledge Ignorance Political Our Nurtured Way States Has-Been Constant Thread Winding Through Always Cult Been Cultural False Just Strain Means Your Notion United United States
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
Refuge Incompetent Last Violence
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov
Life Death Pleasant Troublesome Transition Peaceful
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov
Life Wisdom Knowledge Science Faster Society Saddest Than Aspect Now Right
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov
Sense Way Morals Never Doing Get Your Right
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' Isaac Asimov
Funny Science Phrase Exciting New Most Hear Discoveries Eureka
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov
Education Believe Kind Only Firmly Self-Education
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov
Today Change World Decision Will Made Inevitable Society Only Factor Taking Longer Without Continuing Dominant Account Any Sensible
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. Isaac Asimov
Today Science Become Saved Philosophers Our Critics Seem Trivial Individual Crucial Science Fiction Salvation Essence May Fiction Stories Ever Core
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov
Fear Computers Lack Them
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. Isaac Asimov
Inspirational Life Good You Man Yourself People Will Own Not Good Enough Think Enough Reckoning All Things Above Take Never Should Your Belief Things
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov
Knowledge Ignorance Problems Solve Through Them Create
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. Isaac Asimov
Science Light Single Everywhere Anywhere Brighten
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. Isaac Asimov
You Drunk Though All Night Dreamt Something Make Sound Up Being After Creationist Theory Night
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. Isaac Asimov
Government Library Think Society Way Destroy About More Only Read Itself American Being Which Cut American Society Found Funds
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov
World Decision Will Made Only Taking Longer Without Account Any Sensible
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. Isaac Asimov
Life Whatever Hell Believe Think Spend Worse Would Would-Be Boredom Fearing More Heaven Afterlife Whole Even Even Worse
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. Isaac Asimov
Science Problems Inevitable Solutions Writers Although Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Foresee May Fiction Fiction Writers
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov
Future Humanity Burden Important Lost Stars Too Folly Superstition Juvenile Ignorant
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. Isaac Asimov
Nature Cruelty Bestial Someone Deliberate Call Him Greater Insult Human Might
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov
Once Computer Computers Part Smoothly Working Inhumanity Honest Programmed
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. Isaac Asimov
Me Doctor Live Faster Type Brood Minutes Only Had Six Little Medical
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. Isaac Asimov
You Reputation Obvious Subtlety Pays
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. Isaac Asimov
Fall Secretly Those Visibly Bad Bad Review Writers Observation Bleed Review Close Any Who Groups Two
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. Isaac Asimov
Life Men Long Reading Other Considers Say More Long Life Had He Contemplation Read Known His Than Wont Much Should
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. Isaac Asimov
Believe Books Way Immortality Some Only Through Version Expect Personal Such A Thing Thing
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