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Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning. (Isaac Asimov)
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help. View quote
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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 will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all. View quote
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One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. View quote
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. View quote
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How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. View quote
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It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. View quote
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We are meant to know, or we are amoebae. View quote
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I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell. View quote
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It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. View quote
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That is what I want to be remembered for. (Isaac Asimov)
Those creatures from the para-Universe are trying to make themselves understood. View quote
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When the twenty-seven independent Trading Worlds. View quote
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When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. View quote
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What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. View quote
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A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity! View quote
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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. View quote
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He's merely the product of his environment. He doesn't understand much except that ‘I got a gun and you ain't.' View quote
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No other story I have written has anything like this effect on my readers - producing at once an unshakeable memory of the plot and an unshakeable forgettery of the title and even author. I think it may be that the story fills them so frighteningly full, that they can retain none of the side-issues. View quote
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It is better to know - even if the knowledge endured only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. View quote
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Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. (Isaac Asimov)
We can all be members of the intellectual elite. View quote
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". View quote
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Can the word ‘best' mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? View quote
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If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. View quote
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