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[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
Isaac Asimov
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Isaac Asimov
Age: 72 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 2
Died: 1992
Died: April 6
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Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.
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Past glories are poor feeding.
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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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