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• I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Coincidence, Don't Believe

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.283, Spectra

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• Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

  Isaac Asimov

  Teaching, Details, Would Be

  "The Dangerous Myth of Creationism". "Penthouse" Magazine, January 1982.

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• One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the time since, and right now, powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry and thought control. It is useful, then, to have a compendium of the thoughts of great men and women of all faiths (and of none) on the subject, to convince us that we men and woman of freedom are not and never have been alone.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Powerful, Men

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• Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

  Isaac Asimov

  Nice, Easy, Natural

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.344, Spectra

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• How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Men, Looks

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

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Engineering, Design, Progress

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

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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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• If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

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  Adventure, Years, Smoking

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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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dust, History, Lapses

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• The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

  Isaac Asimov

  Important, Income, Nuclear

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

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• The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Religion, Downtrodden

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.213, Spectra

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• People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.

  Isaac Asimov

  People, Coincidence, Arcane

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

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• A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.259, Spectra

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• It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

  Isaac Asimov

  Racism, Hatred, Way

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.71, Macmillan

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• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

  Isaac Asimov

  Business, Swings, Degrees

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• My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

  Isaac Asimov

  Creativity, Ideas, Feelings

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• The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

  Isaac Asimov

  Block, Essentials, Impossible

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• A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

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  Science, Men, May

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• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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  Foundation, Pay, Reputation

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

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• The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

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  Wheels, Inventor

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• And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, People, Paper

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes”

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• There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

  Isaac Asimov

  Discipline, Faces, Merit

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• The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

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  People, Lasts, Facts

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• They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

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  Want, Equal

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• It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Exercise, Civilization, Privacy

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.106, Spectra

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