Isaac Asimov Quotes - Page 17

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• This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Time Zones, Ideas, United States

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• Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Love You, Dying

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.300, Bantam

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• Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Mistake, Stories, Subtle

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Gods Themselves”, p.3, Spectra

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• Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

  Isaac Asimov

  Agreement, Fiction, Firsts

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

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• Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Parent, Fertility

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• I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Typewriters, Minutes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fiction, Lifetime, Expect Nothing

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• The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (±75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Population, Three, Generations

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• I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

  Isaac Asimov

  New York, Diversity, Giving

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

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• I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Hands, Play

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• No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.

  Isaac Asimov

  World, Safe, Great Depression

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.66, Bantam

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• It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten human survival is not very likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted.

  Isaac Asimov

  Emotional, World Government, Law

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• We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inanimate Objects, Natural, Assorted

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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. [The Second Law of Robotics]

  Isaac Asimov

  Order, Law, Robots

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.31, Spectra

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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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Reality, Men

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.248, Macmillan

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• Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Science, Religion

  Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

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• One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

  Isaac Asimov

  Talking, Soul, Hats

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• I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, School

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• In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

  Isaac Asimov

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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

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• It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month

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  Real, Book, Thinking

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• The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

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  Way, Rope, Chance

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

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• Economics is on the side of humanity now.

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  Humanity, Sides, Economics

  Isaac Asimov (1952). “Triangle: The currents of space; Pebble in the sky; The stars, like dust”

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• All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

  Isaac Asimov

  Cheer, Pregnancy, Technology

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• To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, People, Fields

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.30, Spectra

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• Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Funny, Business

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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