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Isaac Asimov

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Biography - Isaac Asimov:

Russian-American writer .
Born: 1920 - Died: 1992
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Russian Federation
Russian Federation

The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.



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Quotes for: fact


What's done cannot be undone.





Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.






If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.





It is very obvious that we are not influenced by “facts” but by our interpretation of the facts.





To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.





The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.











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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.





Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.





I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.





If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.





What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics.












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