Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~ Albert Einstein
- 2005
- We are all in this together. ~ English proverb
- 2006
- How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection...That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers. ~ Isaac Asimov (born c. 2 January 1920)
- 2007
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov
- 2008
- When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field. ~ Isaac Asimov
- 2009
- It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be … ~ Isaac Asimov
- 2010
- I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. ~ Isaac Asimov
- 2011
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ~ Isaac Asimov
- 2012
- It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ~ Isaac Asimov
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
| All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves … You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.
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- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- proposed by Kalki; in regard of her recent death.
- 2024
- 2025
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DOB: Isaac Asimov · Philip Morin Freneau · Gilbert Murray
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. ~ Isaac Asimov (date of birth)
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield. ~ Philip Morin Freneau
- 3 because in the heat of combat, defense is as important as offense, if not more important. Zarbon 05:33, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 16:55, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:24, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
| Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
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| ~ Isaac Asimov ~
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| My crime is that I have never labored to make myself popular — I admit that much — and I have paid too little attention to fools who are old enough to be senile but young enough to have power.
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| ~ Isaac Asimov ~
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- 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:54, 25 May 2023 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.
- An old eagle, a blind eagle, who waits hungry and cold and still;
He seeks nothing, he fears nothing: he stands lone on a lonely hill. ~ Gilbert Murray
