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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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• The intelligent man is never bored.

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  Intelligent, Men, Bored

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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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• Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

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  Lying, Reputation, Telling The Truth

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• If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

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  Inspirational, Persistence, Rejection

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• Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"

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  Pain, Believe, Names

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.330, Bantam

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• There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

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  Happy Endings, Crisis

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Gods Themselves”, p.292, Spectra

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• Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

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  Life, Attitude, Answers

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.281, Spectra

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• Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

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  Men, Intuition, Robots

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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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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

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  Science, Scientist, Have Confidence

  "Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright". Book by Isaac Asimov, p. 235, 1978.

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• All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

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  Looks, Look At Yourself

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.209, Spectra

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• Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.

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  Pseudoscience, Pieces, Blanket

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

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• It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.

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  Running, Horse, Fall

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• I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

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  Differences, Doe, Opinion

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• The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

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  Funny, Food, Law

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• You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

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  Future, Needs, Way

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• The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that
  -- No, No! What makes it doubly sad is that they hardly know the book, much less its origins.

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  Christian, Book, Stories

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• To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

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  Discovery, Way, Curious

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• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

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  Life, Atheist, Believe

  "Philosophy on the Go". Book by Joey Green, p. 222, 2007.

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• Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

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  Wise, Philosophy, Numbers

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor: A Lifetime Collection of Favorite Jokes, Anecdotes, and Limericks with Copious Notes on how to Tell Them and why”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

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  Real, Fool, States

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

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• The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

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  Escaping, Tyrants, May

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.392, Spectra

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• I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But, Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.

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  Men, Symphony, Advice

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