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Isaac Asimov
Age: 72 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 2
Died: 1992
Died: April 6
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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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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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There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.
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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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With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.
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No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.
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Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?
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There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
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Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.
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Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.
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... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
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Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
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The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.
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There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.
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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 remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
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