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• It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

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  Fall, May, Nonsense

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• Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

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  Science, Answers, Possibility

  Isaac Asimov (1977). “The road to infinity”, Doubleday Books

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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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• What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.

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  Dream, Jobs, Kids

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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 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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• I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

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  Inspiring, Fear, Humorous

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

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  Jobs, Race, Routine

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• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Asimov's New guide to science”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

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  Animal, Grandchildren, Thinking

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• Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

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  Dream, May, Impossible

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.120, Spectra

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• The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

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  Lying, Used

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.239, Spectra

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• I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

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  Suicide, Stupid, Eye

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

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• At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

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  Past, Odd, Unpredictable

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.10, Spectra

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

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  Animal, Humanity, Pet

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

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• It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

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  Thinking, Different, Add

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

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• Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

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  Sports, Robots, Crowds

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• Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

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  Memories, Science, Intelligent

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

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• Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

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  Wind, Deeds, Bragging

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

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• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

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  Inspirational, Life, Science

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

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