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• Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.

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  Running, War, Cutting

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “The secret of the universe”, Doubleday Books

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• Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

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  Life, Journey, Worry

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• Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a good grasp of science. The ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, questions of diet and heredity. All require scientific literacy. Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate? The whole premise of democracy is that it is safe to leave important questions to the court of public opinion - but is it safe to leave them to the court of public ignorance?

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  Rain, Ignorance, Science

  "Combatting U.S. Scientific Illiteracy" by Isaac Asimov, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1989.

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• There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

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  Nature, Feelings, Natural

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• To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

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  Beautiful, Succeed, Planning

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

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• Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

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  Death, Atheist, If There Is A God

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

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• The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

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  Mean, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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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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• I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

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  Believe, Independent, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1982). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

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  Life, Games, Chess Game

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• Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.

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  Science, Thinking, Views

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• They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

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  Eye, Past, Would Be

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “The far ends of time and earth”

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• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

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  Being Yourself, Reality, Believe In Yourself

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• The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the confidence in tomorrow’s love is also part of today’s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die - I almost believe, rationalist though I am - that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.

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  Memories, Believe, Love Is

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

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• Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

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  Change, Science, Engineering

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• Tell me why the stars do shine, Tell me why the ivy twines, Tell me what makes skies so blue, And I'll tell you why I love you. Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine, Tropisms make the ivy twine, Raleigh scattering make skies so blue, Testicular hormones are why I love you.

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  Stars, Love You, Blue

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• Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

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  Science, Men, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (1992). “The Complete Stories”, Anchor Books

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• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

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  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.

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• There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

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  Death, Faith, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1971). “the Stars in their Courses”

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• He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.

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  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "I, Asimov: A Memoir". Book by Isaac Asimov, p. 308, 1994.

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• While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

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  Dream, Thinking

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

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  Eggs, Rotten, Able

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.308, Bantam

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• If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

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  Religious, Hypocrite, Heaven

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• The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

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  Successful, Secret, Fool

  Isaac Asimov (1970). “The English plays”

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