Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency. (Isaac Asimov)

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

Isaac Asimov

Related topics

extension inefficiency knowledge mean think

Related quotes

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. View quote
Albert Finney
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. View quote
Václav Havel
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven