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• When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

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  Atheist, Science, Epic

  "The Relativity of Wrong". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1996.

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• Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

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  Husband, Science, History

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “Asimov on physics”, Doubleday Books

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• I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

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  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophy

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.32, Bantam

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• Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

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

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• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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  Science, Light, Single Relationship

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

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• I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.

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  Writing, Long Ago, Mind

  "Nemesis". Book by Isaac Asimov. Introduction, 1989.

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• You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

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  People, Show Me, Shows

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.209, Spectra

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• To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

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  Knowledge, Science, Perfect

  Isaac Asimov (1968). “The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences”

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• There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

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  Memories, Adhesive

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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• I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.

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  Army, Fighting, Night

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• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

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  Writing, Thinking, Fingers

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• Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

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  Loyalty, Foundation, Truth Is

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

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• The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

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  Writing, Rabbits, Firsts

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• Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

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  Kids, Serious Business, Remember

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• Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

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  Rotten, Way

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.399, Bantam

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• We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

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  Computer, Problem, Reaching

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• If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

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  Thinking, Unjust, Unreasonable

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.77, Spectra

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• Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

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  Truth, Lying, Theory

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

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• All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

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  Wall, Loneliness, Men

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• No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

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  Heaven, Religion, Vision

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• It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

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  Flower, Writing, Imagination

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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• Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.

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  Lying, Succeed, Ashamed

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.96, Spectra

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• If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

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  Speak, Categories, Humans

  1976 Comment in D L Fitzpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

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• You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

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  Work, Writing, Persistence

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• I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.

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  Want, Knows

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Gods Themselves”, p.90, Spectra

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