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When they sat down at a small table and punched in their orders, — Isaac Asimov

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

It's the writing that teaches you. — Isaac Asimov

While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream. — Isaac Asimov

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun. — Isaac Asimov

I suppose there's no way of putting the mushroom cloud back into that nice, shiny uranium sphere. — Isaac Asimov

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word intuition. — Isaac Asimov

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind. — Isaac Asimov

Interregnum - between — Isaac Asimov

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year. — Isaac Asimov

Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation! — Isaac Asimov

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption. — 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

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough? — Isaac Asimov

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

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. — Cory Doctorow

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

The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides. — Isaac Asimov

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do. — Isaac Asimov

I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty good computer, too, isn't it? — 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

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better. — Isaac Asimov

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning. — Isaac Asimov

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. — Isaac Asimov

It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. — Isaac Asimov

I like norby though time and space because he's not all smart and the storys verry interesting — Janet Asimov

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is. — Isaac Asimov

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum. — Isaac Asimov

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl. — Nnedi Okorafor

People live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is. — Isaac Asimov

When one's home has a really excellent computer capable of reaching other computers anywhere in the Galaxy, one scarcely needs to budge, you know. — Isaac Asimov

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court. — Isaac Asimov

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right. — Isaac Asimov

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. — Cory Doctorow

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. — Isaac Asimov

Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ... — Isaac Asimov

I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will. — Isaac Asimov

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister - comes from hating human beings so much, I think. — Isaac Asimov

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. — Greg Egan

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny ... — Isaac Asimov

It's a poor atom blaster that won't point both ways. — Isaac Asimov

I don't like anything that's got to be. I want to know why. — Isaac Asimov

Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers. — Isaac Asimov

He's a pygmy with only one talent, the ability to convince others he's a giant." Lamont — Isaac Asimov

First of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. — Isaac Asimov

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. — Isaac Asimov

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all — Isaac Asimov

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact. — Isaac Asimov

People say 'It's as plain as the noise on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone hold a mirror up to you? — Isaac Asimov

Science is not about what's true. It's about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by way of public evidence. — Lee Smolin

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov

Your phraseology is obscure, but I think I understand. — Isaac Asimov

This your brain. This is your brain on Facebook. Any questions? — James Patrick Kelly

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. — Isaac Asimov

Analog, or Asimov's Magazine, or The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. — David Brin

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov

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

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact. — 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

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold. — Isaac Asimov

Meaning well is a poor defense, — Isaac Asimov

Bel Riose traveled without escort, which is not what court etiquette prescribes — Isaac Asimov

Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'
The Last Trump — Isaac Asimov

You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else. — 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

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket. — Isaac Asimov

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. — 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

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven. — Isaac Asimov

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless. — Isaac Asimov

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty? — Isaac Asimov

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — Isaac Asimov

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural. — Isaac Asimov

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. — Isaac Asimov

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

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days. — Isaac Asimov

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. — Isaac Asimov

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

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. — Isaac Asimov

A moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite. — Isaac Asimov

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail. — Isaac Asimov

It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can have brains, too. — Isaac Asimov

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous. — Isaac Asimov

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness. — 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

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — 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

A "simple aspect of science" may be defined as one which, through good fortune, I happen to understand. — Isaac Asimov

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. — Isaac Asimov