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Been Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
- I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but…
- A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment it is released...…
- The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a…
- Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’
- Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they…
- Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing…
- 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…
- In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.
- And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might…
- 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…
- There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding…
- It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour