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Isaac Asimov Quotes
«It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
capital, dynamics, get by, initiative, swing, The A, The Initiative
«Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.»
«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.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bombing, Dalton, John Dalton, preserved, records, world war, World War II
«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.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
caution, courses, hedged, hedges, hedging, published, remained, rule book, spoiled, writing style
«When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, distinguished, elderly, fervor, rallies, rally, rallying, scientists, supports
«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»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
astrology, business deal, code, enthusiastic, excited, good day, planets, T, well-to-do
«Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore, few people owned automobiles, so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
air-conditioned, Air conditioning, automobiles, Brooklyn, fullness, furthermore, inhibition, inhibitions, in Brooklyn, In the House, owned, served, stoops
«I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn't bad for someone who only admits to being in his late youth- or a little over thirty, if pinned down.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admits, astonishment, eighths, pinned, pin down, publishing
«If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my stature. It may well be that many East European Jews are descended from Khazars, I may be one of them. Who knows? And who cares?»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
European, inch, judas, King David, stature, trace
«That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Racism
| Keywords:
excesses, hopeful, humane, incontestable, poisonous