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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Motivational, Future, Continuing On

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

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• Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Nursing, Moved On

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• The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

  Isaac Asimov

  Order, Law, Long

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “In memory yet green: the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954”, Doubleday Books

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• Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.

  Isaac Asimov

  Light, Events, Certainty

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.229, Spectra

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• Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.

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  Animal, Hands, Differences

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.71, Spectra

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• Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

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  Democracy, Politics, Overpopulation

  Isaac Asimov, Carl Howard Freedman (2005). “Conversations with Isaac Asimov”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• ... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

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  Robots, Humans, Differentiate

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

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• Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

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  Gains, Forbidden, All Time

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.242, Spectra

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• I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Science, Years

  Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

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• Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Science, Love Is

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• The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

  Isaac Asimov

  Cutting, Self, Humanity

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

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• A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

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  Robots, May, Harm

  'I, Robot' (1950) in 'Runaround'

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• What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Jobs, Laughter, Pain

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• In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Individual, Easier

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fear, Atheism, Outsiders

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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• Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

  Isaac Asimov

  Robots, Common, Existence

  "Visit to the World's Fair of 2014" by Isaac Asimov, archive.nytimes.com. August 16, 1964.

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• The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.

  Isaac Asimov

  Technology, Hands, Independence

  "Past, Present, and Future".

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• The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Creativity, Creative, World

  "Isaac Asimov Asks, 'How Do People Get New Ideas?'". Essay by Isaac Asimov on creativity, www.technologyreview.com. 1959.

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• Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

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  Gratitude, Doe, Phrases

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Foundation and Empire”, p.122, Spectra

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• Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

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  Flattery, Youngsters

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

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• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Religious, Atheist

  "Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.

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• When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sea, Rivers, Advice

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.83, Bantam

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• Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself---what's the expression---ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Expression, Bangs

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• If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

  Isaac Asimov

  Greed, Too Much, Asks

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• Finished products are for decadent minds.

  Isaac Asimov

  Mind, Products, Finished

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.67, Spectra

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