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Isaac Asimov
Age: 72 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 2
Died: 1992
Died: April 6
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It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.
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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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Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.
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All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.
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There is an art to science, and a science in art the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.
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All life is nucleic acid the rest is commentary.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is content and the latter is style.
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It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.
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This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.
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I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
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Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
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When I die I won't go to heaven or hell there will just be nothingness.
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Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.
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