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• Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

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  Children, Science, Lifelong

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• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

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  Humorous, All Time Low, World

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• Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

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  Time, Knowledge, Science

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• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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• It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

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  Characteristics, Chiefs

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

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• 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.

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  Ambition, Keys, Two

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

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• I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why encourage that by keeping the old labels with their ready-made history of millennial hate?

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  Hate, Labels, Millennials

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• Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

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  Life, Imagination, Happy Day

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.58, Bantam

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• Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be

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  Scientist

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Opus 300”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

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  Life, Writing, Breathe

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

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• Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

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  Rain, Sea, Rivers

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• You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

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  Want, Reason, Logical

  Isaac Asimov (1983). “The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels”, Doubleday Books

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• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

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  Writing, Science, Fiction

  1975 'How Easy To See The Future', in Natural History, Apr.

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• The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

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  Fighting, Self, Temptation

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

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• One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

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  Men, Order, Suits

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• It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

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  Children, Men, Feels

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

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• All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

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  Choices, Insanity, Humanity

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• Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

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  Conscience

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

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• Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I did nothing for you.” -You loved me and your love made me--human.

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  Goodbye, Remember, Made

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• We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

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  Writing, Cutting, Lessons

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.379, Spectra

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• An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

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  Atoms, Weapons, Way

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

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• A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

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  Fire, Kindles, Ifs

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

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• No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

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  Writing, Creative, World

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• There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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  Ignorance, May, Today

  "The 'Threat' Of Creationism" by Isaac Asimov, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

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  Stars, World, Courses

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.112, Macmillan

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