Isaac Asimov

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"...if I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul."	Fear
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."	Excellence, Honesty, Truth
"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."	Destruction, Life, Men
"Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith."	Fear
"From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review."	Evil, Good, Writing
"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."	Economics, Hope
"I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me."	Fear
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."	Fear, Technology
"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."	Fear, Lies, Life
"I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander."	Reading
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."	Ignorance, Knowledge, Wisdom
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."	Age, Life
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."	Humor
"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster."	Writing
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."	Miscellaneous
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."	Age, Argument, Conflict
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."	Success, Life
"Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)"	Fear
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."	Miscellaneous
"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. . ."	Decision-Making, Monarchy
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