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There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story. (Isaac Asimov)
The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity. View quote
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I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong. View quote
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I suppose he's entitled to his opinion, but I don't suppose it very hard. View quote
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He is energetic only in evading responsibility. View quote
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The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”. View quote
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors. View quote
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Science is a systematic method for studying and working out those generalizations that seem to describe the behavior of the universe. It could exist as a purely intellectual game that would never affect the practical life of human beings either for good or evil, and that was very nearly the case in ancient Greece, for instance. Technology is the application of scientific findings to the tools of everyday life, and that application can be wise or unwise, useful or harmful. Very often, those who govern technological decisions are not scientists and know little about science. View quote
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The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching. View quote
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You are a valuable subject, Brodrig. You always suspect far more than is necessary, and I have but to take half your suggested precautions to be utterly safe. View quote
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He believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don't believe in it at all. (Isaac Asimov)
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. View quote
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Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, "then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes. View quote
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Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does. View quote
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It is a mistake,” he said, "to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century. View quote
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That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men's minds. View quote
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For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly. View quote
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The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested. View quote
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There's nothing like deduction. We've determined everything about our problem but the solution. View quote
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I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public. View quote
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The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction. (Isaac Asimov)
Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward. View quote
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There was no denying that he would always be conscious of the fact that an Earthman was an Earthman. He couldn't help that. That was the result of a childhood immersed in an atmosphere of bigotry so complete that it was almost invisible, so entire that you accepted its axioms as second nature. Then you left it and saw it for what it was when you looked back. View quote
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The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists ... the incidence is ten times greater. View quote
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I have always dealt with economic forces, rather than philosophic forces, but you can't split history into neat little non-overlapping divisions. For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society. View quote
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