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Title: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 12:39:46 PM
Isaac Asimov Quotes

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An American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (The sole exception being the 100s: philosophy and psychology, although he did write a foreword for The Humanist Way, which is published in the 100s).

Here are some famous quotes by Isaac Asimov. 

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:07:09 PM
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:08:11 PM
There is a single light of science and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:09:41 PM
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:14:59 PM
The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing but we refuse to believe it.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:15:45 PM
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:16:41 PM
The most exciting phrase to hear in science the one that heralds new discoveries is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:17:21 PM
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:18:15 PM
When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:19:01 PM
The most exciting phrase to hear in science the one that heralds new discoveries is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:19:57 PM
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:20:45 PM
John 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.
Title: Re: ~ Isaac Asimov Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2014, 01:21:25 PM
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.