Isaac Asimov Quotes
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I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
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Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.
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You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.
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'Science Fiction, 1938' Nebula Winners 14 (1980) edited by Frederick J. Pohl, p. 97
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If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.
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Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
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We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.
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SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?
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For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment.'
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How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?
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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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Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.
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Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
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'It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.'
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Economics is on the side of humanity now.
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A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!
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A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
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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.
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A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.
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It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.
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The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.
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'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
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The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.
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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.