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" 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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" To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. "

" I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. "

" The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. "

" It is not only the living who are killed in war. "

" 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. "

" It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. "

" 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. "

" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. "

" Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. "

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" I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. "

" If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. "

" 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. "

" Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. "

" Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. "

" He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. "

" Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "

" Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. "

" 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. "

" All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. "

" A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. "

" 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. "

" I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. "

" There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. "

" There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. "

" 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. "