"In 1936, I first wrote science fiction. It was a long-winded attempt at writing an endless novel … which died. I remember one sentence: 'Whole forests stood sere and brown in midsummer.' That was the first Asimovian science-fiction sentence."

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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

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“Creationists don't want equal time, … they want all the time there is.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

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