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"22 Isaac Asimov Quotes & Sayings

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Born: January 2, 1920 Died: April 6, 1992 | Writer |

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Aspect Wisdom Society Science
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Science Fiction Writer Inevitable
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Surrender Ignorance God Premature
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
True Delight Finding Knowing
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

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

Write Reason Breathe Die
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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.

Things Think Good Man
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Knowledge Problems Create Ignorance
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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.

Believe Life Afterlife Spend
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

People Annoyance Think Great
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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.

Sensible Decision Account World
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Doctor Minutes Live Faster
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Self=education Believe Firmly Kind
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Sense Morals Way Right
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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.

Humanity Stars Future Lost
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Pays Obvious Reputation Subtlety
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It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Living Killed War
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Live Forever Intend Possible
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

About American American Society Being
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Fingers Me Simply Thinking
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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.

Believe Books Expect Immortality
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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.

Become Core Critics Crucial
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Isaac Asimov Quotes & Sayings