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" Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. "
Isaac Asimov
Theory
Sound
Drunk
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" I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. "
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" And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. "
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" It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. "
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" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. "
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" There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. "
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" The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. "
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" Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. "
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" John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. "
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" If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. "
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Create
Ignorance
" A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. "
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Rise
May
" Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. "
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Only
" Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. "
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" Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. "
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Part
Computers
Honest
" No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. "
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Without
World
Will
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Who
" To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. "
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Ignorance
Always
God
" It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. "
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Decision
World
Today
" The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' "
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New
Most
Hear
" If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. "
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Me
Medical
Little
" Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. "
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Believe
Kind
Education
" It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. "
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More
Business
Advertising
" Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. "
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Thinking
Me
Writing
" I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. "
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Life
Think
Hell
" Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "
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Violence
Anger
Last
" I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. "
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Write
Breathe
Die
" I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. "
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Forever
Possible
Long
" I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. "
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I Am
Am
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" From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. "
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Observation
Who
" Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. "
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Problems
May
Science Fiction
" Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. "
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Time
Universal
Over