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• And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

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  Men, Brain, Three

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• There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

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  Discovery, Doe, Revolutionary

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• Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

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  Husband, Science, History

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “Asimov on physics”, Doubleday Books

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• No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

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  Heaven, Religion, Vision

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• The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

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  Might, Facts, Revolutionary

  "The Three Numbers". Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1974.

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• To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.

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  Dream, Army, Night

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• Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

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  Fear, Atheism, Rage

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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• Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.

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  Light, Events, Certainty

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.229, Spectra

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• Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’

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  Speech, Jew, Protected

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• When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

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  Atheist, Science, Epic

  "The Relativity of Wrong". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1996.

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• I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.

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  Army, Fighting, Night

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• In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.

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  Inspiration, Technology, Men

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

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• There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

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  Lonely, Men, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.56, Macmillan

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• I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

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  People, Bears, Groups

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• Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

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  Men, Human Nature, Enough

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

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• Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

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  Children, Envy, Bird

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• How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.

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  Art, Two, People

  "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov. Chapter 25, 1983.

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• You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

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  People, Show Me, Shows

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

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• I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

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  Writing, Long Ago, Mind

  "Nemesis". Book by Isaac Asimov. Introduction, 1989.

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• I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.

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  Writing, Long Ago, Mind

  "Nemesis". Book by Isaac Asimov. Introduction, 1989.

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• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

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  Writing, Thinking, Fingers

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• Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

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  Quests, Satisfaction, Scientist

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• The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.

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  Taken, Years, Matter

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective”, Doubleday Books

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• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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  Science, Light, Single Relationship

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

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• Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

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  Kids, Serious Business, Remember

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