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Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.
Isaac Asimov
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Isaac Asimov
Age: 72 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 2
Died: 1992
Died: April 6
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Autobiographer
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Science Fiction Writer
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I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.
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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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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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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
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Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from The Bicentennial Man) story)
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I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
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If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. 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. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
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Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
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