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From Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- 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…
- Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going…
- 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…
- I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
- One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them…
- Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- 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…
- I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the…
- 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…
- 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…
- There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping…
- But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior…
- 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…
- 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,…
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