Creative Quotations from . . .
Isaac Asimov
(1920-1992) born on
Jan 02
US science writer, science-fiction writer. He was a prolific non-fiction and SF author who created the "robotic laws" and the "Foundation" series.
         
   
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F
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

R
[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
A
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.
N
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.
K
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
R: "My Own View" (published in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. by Robert Holdstock, 1978.
A: "My Own View" (published in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. by Robert Holdstock, 1978.
N: "My Own View" (published in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. by Robert Holdstock, 1978.
K: In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
 

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