Isaac Asimov Quotes - Page 10

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• Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

  Isaac Asimov

  Humble, Pins, Puncture

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• In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

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  People, Not Good Enough, Good Enough

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• The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

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  Organization, Brain, Matter

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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• They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.

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  Rain, Oxygen, Giving

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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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  Names, Two, Honor

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

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  Vacuums, Legends, Might

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• The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

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  Engineering, Design, Progress

  Isaac Asimov (1977). “The beginning and the end”, Pocket

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• Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.8, Spectra

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• If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

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  Conclusion, Balanced, Ifs

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “The Robots of Dawn”, p.117, Spectra

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• Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

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  Wind, People, World

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.130, Spectra

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• There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

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  Death, Sleep, Boredom

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.480, Bantam

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• The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

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  Important, Income, Nuclear

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

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• The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

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  Religious, Religion, Downtrodden

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.213, Spectra

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• Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

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  Heart, Night, Insecurity

  Isaac Asimov (2008). “The Stars, Like Dust”, p.96, Macmillan

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• It's the writing that teaches you.

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  Writing, Teach

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• The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere.

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  Order, Games, Play

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

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  Hatred, Athletic, Admiration

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.18, Bantam

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• Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

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  Marriage, Dark, Futility Of Life

  "Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood".

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• Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

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  Nice, Easy, Natural

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.344, Spectra

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• The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

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  Real, Emotional, Civilization

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

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  Thinking, People, Devil

  Isaac Asimov (1977). “The beginning and the end”, Pocket

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• Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

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  Teaching, Details, Would Be

  "The Dangerous Myth of Creationism". "Penthouse" Magazine, January 1982.

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• If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

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  Adventure, Years, Smoking

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• I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

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  Believe, Coincidence, Don't Believe

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.283, Spectra

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