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The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity. (Isaac Asimov)
Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty. Q. You are sure that your statement represents scientific truth? A. I am. View quote
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The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more. View quote
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Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I did nothing for you.” -You loved me and your love made me--human. View quote
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Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach. View quote
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The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. View quote
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In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light. View quote
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo. View quote
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Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters. View quote
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Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading. View quote
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Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. (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. View quote
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Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something. View quote
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There's soknowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. View quote
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We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it. View quote
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I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn't have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear. View quote
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[Writing] is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing. View quote
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Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris. View quote
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I've lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury. View quote
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Consider the most famous pure dystopian tale of modern times, 1984, by George Orwell (1903-1950), published in 1948 (the same year in which Walden Two was published). I consider it an abominably poor book. It made a big hit (in my opinion) only because it rode the tidal wave of cold war sentiment in the United States. View quote
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To Mankind And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all. (Isaac Asimov)
I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless. View quote
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You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary. View quote
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How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased? View quote
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It is better to go to defeat with free will than to live in a meaningless security as a cog in a machine. View quote
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