Isaac Asimov Short Quotes

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Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete.

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

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It's one thing to have guts; it's another to be crazy.

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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

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Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

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

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An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

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

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While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

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

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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.

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A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

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Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.

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

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I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

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Just you think first, and don't bother to speak afterward, either.

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We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

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The most frightening phrase in the Russian language is "That's odd."

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

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The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

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Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.

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

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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.

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You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

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