Isaac Asimov

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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.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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.
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.
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.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. 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.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

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