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There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Me...more

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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

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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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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- it...more

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Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting i...more

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Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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And just how did you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?""In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much-neglected commo...more

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

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In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and wor...more

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Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?

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He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

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It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

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Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and tha...more

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Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusin...more

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And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasio...more