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• If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?

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  Differences, Robots, Might

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.420, Spectra

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

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  Writing, Essence, Fiction Stories

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.

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  Inspiration, Technology, Men

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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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.

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  Writing, Sleep, Typewriters

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• I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

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  Lucky, Break, Heredity

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

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  Meaningful, Data, Answers

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.

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  Book, Writing, Ignorance

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• Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

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  Faces, Fiction, Literature

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• We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

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  Forever, Trying, Understood

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “Caves of Steel”, p.228, Spectra

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• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

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  Humorous, All Time Low, World

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• Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

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  Children, Science, Lifelong

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• From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

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  Funny, Fall, Writing

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Gold: the final science fiction collection”, Harper Prism

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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.

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  Growing Up, Vacation, Cells

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

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• Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing fine. And eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. We are now facing a possible dark age which is going to be world-wide and permanent! That's not fun. That's a different thing. But once we have established many worlds, we can do whatever we want as long as we do it one world at a time.

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  Fun, Dark, Moon

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• It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

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  Characteristics, Chiefs

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

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  Ambition, Keys, Two

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

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  Time, Knowledge, Science

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• I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why encourage that by keeping the old labels with their ready-made history of millennial hate?

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  Hate, Labels, Millennials

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• Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

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  Life, Imagination, Happy Day

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.58, Bantam

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• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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• Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be

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  Scientist

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Opus 300”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

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  Age, Magazines, Lasts

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.78, Bantam

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• You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

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  Want, Reason, Logical

  Isaac Asimov (1983). “The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels”, Doubleday Books

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• One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

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  Men, Order, Suits

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• I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

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  Life, Writing, Breathe

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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