Isaac Asimov quotes - page 10

Private profit is often hidden under a careful coating of great patriotism. (Isaac Asimov)
It is the nature of science that answers automatically pose new and more subtle questions. View quote
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Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with. View quote
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The stars, like dust, encircle me In living mists of light; And all of space I seem to see In one vast burst of sight. View quote
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Truth is a discredited commodity among diplomats. View quote
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No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough. View quote
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It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong. View quote
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Scientific writing is abhorrently stylized and places a premium on poor quality. View quote
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There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil. View quote
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It seems to be almost an invariable rule that as real power declines, the symbols of power multiply and intensify in compensation. View quote
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Ten years on the moon could tell us more about the universe than a thousand years on the earth might be able to. (Isaac Asimov)
This - this - was my life's work. My past - humanity's future. Foundation. So beatiful. So alive. And nothing can...Dors! View quote
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Old memories - really old - are almost all in the mountain roots where it takes time to dig them out. View quote
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To us, all life is a series of accidents to be met with improvisations. To them, all life is purposive and should be met with precalculation. View quote
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No matter how the conomy and sociology of the neighbouring sectors of the Galaxy changes, there was always an elite; and it is always the characteristic of an elite that it possesses leisure as the great reward of its elite-hood. View quote
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One should cultivate an innocence, an awareness of self, and an unselfconsciousness of self which leaves one nothing to hide. View quote
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Finished products are for decadent minds. View quote
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There can never be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corrdiors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. There never was a man so helpless as one who cannot remember. View quote
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The same man who could not find it in his conscience to curb his curiosity into the nuclear studies that might someday kill half of Earth would risk his life to save that of an unimportant felllow man. View quote
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Seldon found himself raging at the passage of time. View quote
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Earth governments in moments of stress are not famous for being reasonable. (Isaac Asimov)
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. View quote
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. View quote
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