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Isaac Asimov Inspirational Quotes (262)

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Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.
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Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.
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Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.
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Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
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You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.
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The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.
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Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.
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If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.
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Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.
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It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
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Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
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Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
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All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.
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The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern knowledge is that it is wrong.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all
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I don't believe in personal immortality the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.
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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 who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
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