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I've been saying for a long ti...

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

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If I didn't exist, I would hav...

If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.

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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, b...

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

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I suspect that religion is a n...

I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?

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Absolutely no religious rites ...

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral

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My favorite definition of an i...

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

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The crossing of space ... may ...

The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.

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Finally, I would like to assur...

Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may we

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Any technology distinguishable...

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

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Death focuses the mind on the ...

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

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I have great faith in optimism...

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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I want to be remembered most a...

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

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The goal of the future is full...

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

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When I start on a book, I have...

When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.

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Somewhere in me is a curiosity...

Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.

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A faith that cannot survive co...

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

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Belief in God is apparently a ...

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

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I'm sometimes asked how I woul...

I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

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The time was fast approaching ...

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

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Those wanderers must have look...

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

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