It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Isaac Asimov

Mots clés science confidence evidence

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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Isaac Asimov

Mots clés wisdom knowledge delight

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I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

Isaac Asimov

Mots clés humor science-fiction

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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Isaac Asimov

Mots clés asimov second-foundation

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Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Isaac Asimov

Mots clés math pithy mathematics maths

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To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly
may someday be won after all.

Isaac Asimov

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You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.

Isaac Asimov

Mots clés sad-but-true

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Do you know what it is to play a part? To split your personality deliberately for twenty-four hours a day? Even when with friends? Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently? To be a dilettante? To be eternally amused? To be of no account? To be so effete and faintly ridiculous that you have convinced all who know you of your own worthlessness? All so that your life may be safe even though it means it has become barely worth living. But even so, once in a while I can fight them.

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A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

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Evet. Bu çok garip ama gerçekten özlemiyorum. Mavi göğü, yeşil kırları, akan suları özleyeceğimden emindim. Arza özgü bütün bu nitelikleri. Ama hiç birini de özlemiyorum. Onları rüyamda bile görmüyorum."
Selene, "Bazen öyle şeyler oluyor" dedi. "Daha doğrusu vatan özlemi çekmediklerini söyleyen bazı Göççülerle karşılaştım. Tabii öyleleri az. Ve hiç kimse bu küçük grubun müşterek özelliklerini anlayamıyor. Tabii türlü tahminler yürütülüyor. Kimisi bu Göççülerde ciddi bir duygusuzluk olduğunu, onların hiçbir şey hissedemediklerini söylüyor. Kimisi ise fazla duygulu olduklarını ve sinir krizi geçirmekten korktukları için vatan hasreti duyduklarını itiraftan kaçındıklarını.

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