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• If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

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  Spiritual, Atheist, Fear

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.481, Bantam

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• There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

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  Lonely, Men, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.56, Macmillan

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• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Asimov's New guide to science”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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  Honesty, Technology, Computer

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

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• Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

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  Lying, Reputation, Telling The Truth

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• I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

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  Country, Kings, Real

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• Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

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  Love, Thinking, People

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• Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

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  Men, Human Nature, Enough

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

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• If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

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  Life, Writing, Doctors

  Life (1984)

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• Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.

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  Giving Up, Fighting, Winning

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• True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

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  Education, Art, Learning

  "It's Been a Good Life".

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• Computerization eliminates the middleman

  Isaac Asimov

  Middlemen

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• The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.

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  Taken, Years, Matter

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective”, Doubleday Books

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• To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

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  Population, Needs, Anarchy

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

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• There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

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  Art, Two, Enemy

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• When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

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  Heaven, Religion, Atheism

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• Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

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  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Facts

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.5, Spectra

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• Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium.

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  Intelligent, Keys, Survival

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• I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.

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  Taken, Heart, Technological Change

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• To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.

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  Disappointment, Believe, People

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

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• The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

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  Escaping, Tyrants, May

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.392, Spectra

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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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  Believe, Science, Law

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations". 1988.

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• And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

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  Men, Brain, Three

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• Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

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  Children, Envy, Bird

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• Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Interview with Bill Moyers on October 21, 1988. "Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas". Book by Bill D. Moyers, 1989.

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