Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, How did you learn all this, Isaac?From you, Pappa, I said.
A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually remember my dreams.) I dreamed I had died and gone to Heaven. I looked about and knew where I was-green...
I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect o...
How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.
Give us but the chance and a new generation of Earthmen would grow to maturity, lacking insularity and believing wholeheartedly in the oneness of Man.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one...
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough,...
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the theory of relativity worked out between 1905 and 1916. W...
You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.
I shall not be alive a half decade hence, said Seldon, and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we...
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past an...
Un nou-născut crede că el reprezintă întregul univers, dar greșește - așa cum își dă seama destul de repede. De aceea, el trebuie să studieze lumea exterioară lui - trebuie să încerce să învețe unde s...
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.
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
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