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Isaac Asimov (/ˈæzɪmɒv/;[b][c] c. January 2, 1920[a] – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer who wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards.[d] His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.

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I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

Humanity, Nation, Patriotism, Recognize, Thinking

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

Enemy, Sticks, Beats, Stick, Firmly, Nettle

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

Begin, Day, Decaying, Learning, Stop

All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary

Acid, Life Is, Commentary, Rest, Nucleic, Life

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Facts, Full, Might, Revolutionary, Science, Small

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

Fact, Facts, Fiction, Science, Today

Computerization eliminates the middleman

Computerization, Eliminates, Middleman, Middlemen

Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity. . . usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium.

Fecundity, Intelligent, Keys, Rat, Survival, Thing

Education isn't something you can finish

Education, Finish

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

Love, Magical, Quantity, Requires, Tinkering

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Believe, Book, Books, Way

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

Fiction, Human, Impact, Literature

I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters. . . In between two of the segments she asked me. . . "But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?" I said, "Type faster. " This was widely quoted, but the "six months" was changed to "six minutes," which bothered me. It's "six months.

Doctors, Faster, Months, Segments, Six Months, Two

From my close observation of writers. . . they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Bad, Fall, Funny, Groups, Secretly, Writing

I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.

Advantage, Army, Fighting, Night, Object, View

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Knowledge, Match, Science, Testing, Thinking, Way

To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

Anarchy, Cherished, Destruction, Needs, Population, Values

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

Certain, Change, Eye, Notions, Past, Would Be

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

Atheist, Long, Atheism, Time

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

Fall, Fashionable, May, Nonsense, Science, Though

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