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Isaac Asimov Quotebook

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Isaac Asimov Quotebook

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The Isaac Asimov Sourcebook: with citations Compiled by Averil Chase Return to the ASIMOV QUOTES INDEX A brief commercial message Please support this site by searching for sci fi, electronics, and other goodies at Ebay through our search box, and bidding on them...and winning them! Asimov on Science and Science Fiction: [Books][Coining Terms] [Eye Sci Fi][Science Fiction][Science and Technology] [SF Writers][Superman] Asimov on Everything Else: [Asimov] [[Education] [the Future] [Myth and Religion] [People] [Shakespeare] [Time] [Writing] on Asimov I'm Isaac Asimov. I'm a little over thirty years old and I have been selling science fiction stories since 1938. (If the arithmetic seeems wrong here, it's because you don't understand higher mathematics.) "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine," IASFM, Spring 1977 Asimov on Science Fiction, pg. 289 Mystery writers don't commit murders and fantasy writers don't talk to rabbits, so why should a science fiction writer have to fly? "The Wendell Urth Series," The Great Science Fiction Series, Pohl et al, ed, 1980 Asimov on Science Fiction, pg. 247, 248 I'm just a word-man, and even though it is a wise person who knows his powers, it is an even wiser person who knows his limitations. "Hollywood and I," IASFM, May 1979 Asimov on Science Fiction 293, pg. 289 That casts me down [a fact that doesn't support one of his hypotheses], but any theory, no matter how close to my heart, must give way in the face of adverse observation. "Asking the Right Question," Magazine of F & SF, November 1987 Out of the Everywhere, pg. 28 I suspect that the Galaxy is full of advanced but forever isolated civilizations. "Where Is Everybody?," Magazine of F & SF, December 1978 The Road to Infinity, pg. 189 I think that knowledge comes from below [not full-blown by supernatural revelation], from observation, from simple and unsophisticated thinking that establishes a primitive concept that gradually grows complex and abstract as more and more knowledge is gathered. "The Subtlest Difference," Magazine of F & SF, October 1977 The Road to Infinity, pg. 211 No concept I have ever heard, of either a Hell or of a Heaven, has seemed to me to be suitable for a civilized rational mind to inhabit, and I would rather have the nothingness. "The Subtlest Difference," Magazine of F & SF, October 1977 The Road to Infinity, pg. 217 All quotes maintain their original copyright and are presented here for research, reference and review. Thanks to Doubleday for permission to use selected quotes. Click on the icons for new features in The Thunder Child. Radiation Theater: 1950s Sci Fi Movies Discussion Boards The Sand Rock Sentinel: Ripped From the Headlines of 1950s Sci Fi Films

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