Isaac Asimov quotes - page 2

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. (Isaac Asimov)
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
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Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
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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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Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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.
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If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown. (Isaac Asimov)
I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.
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It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
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It's a poor atom blaster that won't point both ways.
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I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters [...] In between two of the segments she asked me [...] "But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?" I said, "Type faster." This was widely quoted, but the "six months" was changed to "six minutes," which bothered me. It's "six months."
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The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. (Isaac Asimov)
Fifty years,” I hackneyed, "is a long time.” "Not when you're looking back at them,” she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.
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The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
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Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
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All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.
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