Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. - Isaac Asimov
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole. - Isaac Asimov
Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days. - Isaac Asimov
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one. - Isaac Asimov
In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses. - Isaac Asimov
I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts. - Isaac Asimov
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over. - Isaac Asimov
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. - Isaac Asimov
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills. - Isaac Asimov
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie. - Isaac Asimov
Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering. - Isaac Asimov
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide. - Isaac Asimov
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable. - Isaac Asimov
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. - Isaac Asimov
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