Isaac Asimov Quotes

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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Isaac Asimov
However glorious and vast the unimaginable depths of the universe, we cannot remain lost in its glories forever.

Isaac Asimov
I'm saying suppose. In mathematics, we say "suppose" all the time and see if we can end up with something patently untrue or self-contradictory.

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Human beings are very conservative in some ways and virtually never change numerical conventions once they grow used to them. They even come to mistake them for laws of nature.

Isaac Asimov
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

Isaac Asimov
Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.

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On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

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So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style."

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The mysteries of the universe and the questions that scientists strive to answer never come to an end. For that we should be grateful. A universe in which their were no mysteries for curious men to ponder would be a very dull universe indeed.

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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

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I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

Isaac Asimov