There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac AsimovSelf-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac AsimovTags: education learning lifelong-learning self-education
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job
that he isn't worth discussing.
Tags: god
Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac AsimovSuppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
Isaac AsimovTags: wisdom science knowledge learning choice universe ignorance wise achilles
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
Isaac AsimovTags: epistemology
Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.
Isaac AsimovI stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source.
If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out.
We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.
Isaac AsimovTags: epistemology
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
Isaac AsimovTags: literature psychology
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