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" Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. "
Isaac Asimov
Never
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" The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. "
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" Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. "
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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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" Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. "
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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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" 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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" There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. "
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" To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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