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• Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

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  Coincidence In Life, Coincidence, Unusual

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?

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  Moon, Space, Escaping

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• Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

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  Earth, Planets

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.110, Macmillan

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The New Hugo Winners". Book by Isaac Asimov et al., p. 215, 1989.

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• Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.

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  Communication, Men, Mind

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

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• No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.

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  Dust, History, Lapses

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• Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

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  Art, Data, Work Out

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

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• Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

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  Law, Class, Desire

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

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• Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

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  Wise, Stupid, Men

  "Second Foundation".

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• Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

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  Fall, Tasks, Action

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• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

  "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.

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  Dream, Army, Night

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• To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. 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, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

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  Farewell, Ambition, Happy Life

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

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• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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  Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

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• The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.

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  Two, Tree, Forever

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

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• In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

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  People, Not Good Enough, Good Enough

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• The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

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  Power, Never Quit, Release

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.139, Spectra

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• Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

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  Humble, Pins, Puncture

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• The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

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  Organization, Brain, Matter

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

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• They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.

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  Rain, Oxygen, Giving

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• The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

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  Engineering, Design, Progress

  Isaac Asimov (1977). “The beginning and the end”, Pocket

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• A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

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  Vacuums, Legends, Might

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• Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

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  Names, Two, Honor

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

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• Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.8, Spectra

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• Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

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  Wind, People, World

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.130, Spectra

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