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- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will…
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those…
- A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
- 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…
- Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of…
- 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…
- The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths…
- 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…
- The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do…
- Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in…
- After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as…
- Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
- Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
- Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
- One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but…
- It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one…
- Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can…
- Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
- What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no…
- Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.
- 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…
- Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
- Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half…
- There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The…
- I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no…
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