Isaac Asimov Quotes

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To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human‘ might be the greater insult.

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You’d be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

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It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’

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Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

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I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

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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.

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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

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John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

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