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An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. (Isaac Asimov)
It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition. View quote
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... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. View quote
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. View quote
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I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending. View quote
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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 if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. View quote
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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing. View quote
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You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason-if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.” "Then let's get at those postulates in a hurry. The storm's due tomorrow.” Powell sighed wearily. "That's where everything falls down. Postulates are based on assumptions and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. I'm going to bed. View quote
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Asimov: I don't know of any science fiction writer who really attempts to be a prophet. Such authors accomplish their tasks not by being correct in their predictions, necessarily, but merely by hammering home-in story after story-the notion that life is going to be different. View quote
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Books ... hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty. View quote
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You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all. (Isaac Asimov)
I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day. View quote
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Just you think first, and don't bother to speak afterward, either. View quote
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That was the time to begin all-out preparations for war.” "On the contrary. That was the time to begin all-out prevention of war. View quote
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There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't. View quote
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It is my own experience ... that commentators are far more ingenious at finding meaning than authors are at inserting it. View quote
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I don't believe in flying saucers... The energy requirements of interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. View quote
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I simply don't think it is reasonable to use IQ tests to produce results of questionable value, which may then serve to justify racists in their own minds and to help bring about the kinds of tragedies we have already witnessed earlier in this century. View quote
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I don't believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence. View quote
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Scientific theories can always be improved and are improved. That is one of the glories of science. It is the authoritarian view of the Universe that is frozen in stone and cannot be changed, so that once it is wrong, it is wrong forever. View quote
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Ideas are cheap. It's only what you do with them that counts. (Isaac Asimov)
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 its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." View quote
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. View quote
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Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it. View quote
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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. View quote
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