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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "

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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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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