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People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.
— Isaac Asimov
Encyclopedias don't win wars.
— Isaac Asimov
Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.
— Isaac Asimov
Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
— Isaac Asimov
Interregnum - between
— Isaac Asimov
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.
— Isaac Asimov
The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.
— Isaac Asimov
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time.""Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. — Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American author
— George Washington
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
— Isaac Asimov
It is not important what can or cannot be done. What is important is what people will or will not believe can be done.
— Isaac Asimov
You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?""Notoriously not. Pioneers never are. — Isaac Asimov
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
— Isaac Asimov
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
— Nnedi Okorafor
The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.
— Isaac Asimov
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
— Isaac Asimov
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
— Isaac Asimov
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
— Isaac Asimov
That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.
— Isaac Asimov
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
— Isaac Asimov
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
— Isaac Asimov
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
— Isaac Asimov
He clearly knew how dangerous it was to have an excited twelve-year-old handling a powerful weapon.
— Isaac Asimov
Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer.
— Isaac Asimov
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
— Isaac Asimov
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
— Isaac Asimov
All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.
— Isaac Asimov
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
— Isaac Asimov
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.
— Isaac Asimov
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.
— Isaac Asimov
Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.
— Isaac Asimov
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
— Isaac Asimov
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
— Isaac Asimov
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To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.
— Isaac Asimov
He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.
— Isaac Asimov
Author's Note: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.
— Isaac Asimov
Meaning well is a poor defense,
— Isaac Asimov
Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'The Last Trump — Isaac Asimov
An incompetent traitor is no danger. It is rather the capable men who must be watched
— Isaac Asimov
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
— Isaac Asimov
How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.
— Isaac Asimov
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.
— Isaac Asimov
Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
— Isaac Asimov
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
— Isaac Asimov
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.
— Isaac Asimov
Rod from his pocket. The Earthman croaked, "That's a psychic probe." His words were slurred,
— Isaac Asimov
Your phraseology is obscure, but I think I understand.
— Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
— Isaac Asimov
Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.
— Isaac Asimov
Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.
— Isaac Asimov
A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.
— Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.
— Isaac Asimov
Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.
— Isaac Asimov
The spell of power never quite releases its hold.
— Isaac Asimov
You may uncover more and, eventually, what seems altogether a mystery to us now may unfold and become plain.
— Isaac Asimov
His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.
— Isaac Asimov
