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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me a convert of mountain-moving fervor and that I shall suddenly grow long earlocks and learn Hebrew and go about denouncing the heathen - you little know the effect of the Bible on me. Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

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  Moving, Long, Inspire

  "Notes for a Memoir: On Isaac Asimov, Life, and Writing". Book by Janet Asimov, p. 58, 2006.

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• Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

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  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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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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• 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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• How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.

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  Art, Two, People

  "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov. Chapter 25, 1983.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

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  Business, Swings, Degrees

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• And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

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  Book, People, Paper

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes”

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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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• 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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• They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

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  Want, Equal

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• It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

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  Racism, Hatred, Way

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.71, Macmillan

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• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

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  Fall, Gentleman, Curiosity

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.259, Spectra

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