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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

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Thinking, Unjust, Unreasonable

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.77, Spectra

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I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

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Children, Real, Educational

Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.

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Strong, Philosophical, Army

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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

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Rotten, Way

Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.399, Bantam

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It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

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Mind, Invention, Humans

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Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

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Believe, Ignorance, Looks

Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.8, Spectra

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It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

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Flower, Writing, Imagination

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

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The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

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Writing, Rabbits, Firsts

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The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

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Order, Law, Long

Isaac Asimov (1979). “In memory yet green: the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954”, Doubleday Books

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Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

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Fear, Atheism, Outsiders

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

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Finished products are for decadent minds.

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Mind, Products, Finished

Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.67, Spectra

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People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

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Science, Hands, Order

Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

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Thinking, Individual, Easier

Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

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Art, Data, Work Out

Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

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Wall, Loneliness, Men

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When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

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Heaven, Religion, Atheism

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When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it, just to find hope again, rather than looking to his own acts for hope and salvation. Yes, atheism IS a redemptive belief. It is theism that denies man's own redemptive nature.

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Eye, Men, Rocks

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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

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Gains, Forbidden, All Time

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.242, Spectra

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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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Dream, Religious, Atheist

"Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.

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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

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Life, Nursing, Moved On

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What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

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Jobs, Laughter, Pain

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I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.

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Fear, Thinking, Ideas

Isaac Asimov (1992). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

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Robots, Humans, Differentiate

Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Isaac Asimov

Work, Writing, Persistence

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Born: January 2, 1920
Died: April 6, 1992
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