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We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

Fall, Science, Moon

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Change, Past, Continuing On

1978 'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

Encounters, Fiction, Harm

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

Thinking, People, Needs

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

Faith, Emotional, Guarantees That

Isaac Asimov (1991). “Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Law, Errors, Variation

Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Six Months, Type, Faster

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Past, Reform, Research

Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

Past, Forever, World

Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.87, Bantam

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Thinking, Inevitable Change, Way

1978 'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

Dream, Past, Moon

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

Reading, Speed Reading, Speed

Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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.

Hate, Fighting, Intelligent

Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Assumption, Shakes, Universe

Isaac Asimov (1983). “The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels”, Doubleday Books

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

Kings, Winning, Skills

Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

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.

Differences, Mind, Atoms

"The Beginning and the End". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1977.

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

Love, Tinkering, Quantity

Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

Prophet, Said, Masters

Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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