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Isaac Asimov Quotes - Page 9

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Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Coincidence In Life, Coincidence, Unusual

Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Fall, Tasks, Action

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Earth, Planets

Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.110, Macmillan

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Wise, Stupid, Men

"Second Foundation".

To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.

Dream, Army, Night

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

Art, Data, Work Out

Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.

Communication, Men, Mind

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

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

"The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

Farewell, Ambition, Happy Life

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

People, Not Good Enough, Good Enough

The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.

Two, Tree, Forever

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

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.

Rain, Oxygen, Giving

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

Power, Never Quit, Release

Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.139, Spectra

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

Humble, Pins, Puncture

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

Organization, Brain, Matter

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

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

Engineering, Design, Progress

Isaac Asimov (1977). “The beginning and the end”, Pocket

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

Vacuums, Legends, Might

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

Wind, People, World

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.130, Spectra

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Conclusion, Balanced, Ifs

Isaac Asimov (2009). “The Robots of Dawn”, p.117, Spectra

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Names, Two, Honor

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

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

Important, Income, Nuclear

Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

Religious, Religion, Downtrodden

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.213, Spectra

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

Money, Philosophy, President

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Marriage, Dark, Futility Of Life

"Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood".

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