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Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.
Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use
If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.
The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.
But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.
My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.