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Quotes from The Gods Themselves — Isaac Asimov

1920–1992 United States

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Those creatures from the para-Universe are trying to make themselves understood.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

If an interaction is too weak to be detectable or to exert influence in any way, then by any operational definition, it doesn't exist.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

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

The Gods Themselves (1972)

Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

I've lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

I don't like anything that's got to be. I want to know why.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn't have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.

The Gods Themselves (1972)

Sometimes, in the dark of the night, I lie awake and wonder if different intelligences can communicate at all; or, if I've had a particularly bad day, whether the phrase 'different intelligences' has meaning at all."

The Gods Themselves (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Asimov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.