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" Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Science Fiction

" Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. "

" Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. "

" The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. "

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

" If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. "

" 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. "

" Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "