Isaac Asimov

Daily quotes from the prolific sci-fi author!

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Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

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The job of science will never be done, it will just sink deeper and deeper into never-ending complexity.

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There never was a man so helpless as one who cannot remember.

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Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

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The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

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

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

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Distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.

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There is to be no hesitation; no time to allow them to grasp the situation. Once we are in a position to give orders, why, give them as though you were born to do so, and they'll obey out of habit. That's the essence of a coup.

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Republics whose rulers have every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name... enjoy the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

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It seems to be almost an invariable rule that as real power declines, the symbols of power multiply and intensify in compensation.

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Ideas are cheap. It's only what you do with them that counts.

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Although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

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Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate—like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history—until it degenerates into fables.

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Republics whose rulers have every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name... enjoy the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

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There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.

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The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

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The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say.

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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..."