82 ordspråk av Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov föddes den January 2nd 1920 och dog den 6 April 1992 - Russia-born writer
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 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny'

 The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

 The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction, were completely accepted, and indeed, scarcely noted in those days of only forty years ago [the 1930s] (except perhaps by the members of the groups victimized thereby).

 The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

 The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about t

 Then Priss arrived, dragging a volume of colorlessness in with him, a drabness that was unaffected by the noise and the absolute splendor (no other word would describe it - or else it was the two martinis glowing inside me) that filled the room

 There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

 There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

 Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.

 To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

 To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

 To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today

 True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the United States is steadily dumbing down.

 University President: 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.

 Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.


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