| 32 Famous Quotes by Isaac Asimov
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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Competence Quotes |
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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today”
Ignorance Quotes |
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“Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.”
Violence Quotes |
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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.”
Science and technology Quotes |
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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.”
Morals Quotes |
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“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”
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“I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.”
Heredity Quotes |
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“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”
Jokes Quotes |
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“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
Obvious Quotes |
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“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
Reputation Quotes |
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“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”
Science Quotes |
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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....'”
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“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”
Value Quotes |
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“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
Writers Quotes |
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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.”
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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes |
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“When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes |
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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes |
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“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes |
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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
Death / immortality Quotes |
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“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”
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“It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.”
Skepticism Quotes |
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my stature. It may well be that many East European Jews are descended from Khazars, I may be one of them. Who knows? And who cares?”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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