“No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth.” — Isaac Asimov, The Currents of Space
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“Ideas are cheap. It’s only what you do with them that counts.” — Isaac Asimov, “The Secrets of the Universe,”Asimov on Science
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“No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.” — Isaac Asimov, The Near East
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“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?” — Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
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“You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.” — Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
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“’Violence,’ came the retort, ‘is the last refuge of the incompetent.’” — Isaac Asimov, Foundation
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“There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.” — Isaac Asimov, The Stars in Their Courses
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“The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.” — Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves
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“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.” — Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
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“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, “A Cult of Ignorance,” Newsweek (1980-01-21)
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