I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"In ""The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,"" AApex Software, 1994."
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"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"In ""The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,"" AApex Software, 1994."
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
Time Magazine
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is." Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"From ""Charades,"" an internet collection of quotations"
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"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." Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997."
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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. George Meredith (1828 - 1909) English "novelist, poet"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) Swedish botanist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?" Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873) Swiss-US "naturalist, geologist, teacher"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" by Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images." Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) Danish physicist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. Eugene Wigner (1902 - 1995) Hungarian-US physicist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901 - 1976) German physicist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland." Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) Danish astronomer
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"At zero there was the flash. The first thing I saw was a yellow-orange fireball . . . . A mushroom-shaped cloud of glowing magenta began to rise over the desert where the explosion had been. My first thought was, ""My God, that is beautiful!""" Jeremy Bernstein (1929 - ____) US "physicist, educator, writer"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
=F Found in: one/930.htm
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
=R Found in: one/9.htm
"There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole." Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
=R Found in: one/9a.htm
One man's religion is another mans' belly laugh. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"From ""Charades,"" an internet collection of quotations"
=R Found in: one/9d.htm
I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"In ""Webster's Electronic Quotebase,"" ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
=R Found in: one/9c.htm
"[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking." Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"""My Own View"" (published in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. by Robert Holdstock, 1978."
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Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind; poetry can only be considered its recreation. Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English "philosopher, statesman, essayist"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) US "philosopher, pamphleteer"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
=R Found in: one/199.htm
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) Scottish-US-Canadian inventor
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
=R Found in: one/475.htm
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. James A. Froude (1818 - 1894) English historian
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
=R Found in: one/668.htm
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) English biologist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox] was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie. Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823) English physician
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus." Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) Swedish botanist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873) Swiss-US "naturalist, geologist, teacher"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" by Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave." Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878) French physiologist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
=R Found in: one/63.htm
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry." Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889) US "astronomer, educator"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings." George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707 - 1788) French naturalist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin." Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936) Russian physiologist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
=R Found in: one/727.htm
The World little knows how many thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator and have been crushed in silence and secrecy of his own criticism. Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867) English "physicist, chemist"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination . . ." Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) Danish astronomer
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"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. . . ." Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"""My Own View,"" in ""The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,"" ed. Robert Holdstock, 1978."
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The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who? Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"In ""The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,"" AApex Software, 1994."
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"We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them." Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
Time Magazine
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm.... that's funny...'" Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"From ""Charades,"" an internet collection of quotations"
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"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." Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) US "science writer, science-fiction writer"
"""My Own View"" (published in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. by Robert Holdstock, 1978."
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The art of invention grows young with the things invented. Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English "philosopher, statesman, essayist"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"Let us put these new hypotheses [in] public appearance among the old ones which are themselves no more probable, especially since they are wonderful and easy and bring with them a vast storehouse of learned observations." Nicolas Copernicus (1473 - 1543) Polish astronomer
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting point and its rich environment." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Swiss-German-US physicist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experiment skill." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Swiss-German-US physicist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men." Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878) English novelist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"Only when genius is married to science, can the biggest results be produced." Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) English "naturalist, philosopher"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"""Linnea"".. . . A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space -- from Linnaeus who resembles it." Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) Swedish botanist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality." Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) English "statesman, poet"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . ." Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) English "statesman, poet"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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"Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US "philosopher, poet, essayist"
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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THE DNA MOLECULE THE DNA MOLECULE THE DNA MOLECULE is The Nude Descending a Staircase a circular one. See the undersurfaces of the spiral treads and the spaces in between. May Swenson (1919 - 1989) US poet
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" by Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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Art is I; science is we. Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878) French physiologist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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In the year of 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723) Dutch biologist
"In ""Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations,"" by Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
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