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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

~Isaac Asimov

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

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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.

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. 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.

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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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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.

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

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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: January 2nd, 1920

Died: April 6th, 1992

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