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«To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today»
«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»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Life
| Keywords:
above all, good enough, reckoning, reckons
«It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind»
«I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agnostic, agnostics, assumed, As of, atheist, creature, decided, emotionally, humanist, humanists, intellectually, long time, One Good Reason, out-and-out, Say It, somehow, strongly, suspect, took, unrespectable
«Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
concentration, interferes, look up, orgies, orgy, put on
«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!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny'»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
discoveries, Eureka, exciting, funny, herald, heralding, heralds, phrase, phrased, phrasing, The Herald
«Suppose 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.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Ignorance,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
suppose
«I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
atheism, attacking, defending, objects, rationalism, The Question
«It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
theories, unlearn, unlearning, unlearns, Weird
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