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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

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I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

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When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

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Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

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I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 11th, 1922

Died: April 11th, 2007

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