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| The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about t | | Uncategorized | |
| Then Priss arrived, dragging a volume of colorlessness in with him, a drabness that was unaffected by the noise and the absolute splendor (no other word would describe it - or else it was the two martinis glowing inside me) that filled the room | | Uncategorized | |
| There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. | | Science | |
| There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole. | | Uncategorized | |
| Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them. | | Uncategorized | |
| To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. | | Uncategorized | |
| To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn. | | Uncategorized | |
| To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today | | Ignorance | |
| True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the United States is steadily dumbing down. | | Uncategorized | |
| University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers. | | Uncategorized | |
| Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Well, I can type all day without getting tired. [In response to a question as to which he preferred, women or writing] | | Uncategorized | |
| What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for. | | Uncategorized | |
| When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right | | Scientists | |
| Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. | | Uncategorized | |
| [Its nearest rival, I discovered, is The Last Question by science fiction maestro Isaac Asimov. This is the one about what happens when all the stars burn out. Is entropy reversible?] It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story, ... They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself, especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything else - and I'm satisfied that it should. | | Uncategorized | |
