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  • How many people is the earth able to sustain?

    1971 Der Spiegel.
  • All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

    Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books
  • What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody knows that! But do you know how the British spell it? 'Aluminium', pronounced 'Al-yoo-MIH-nee-um'. Ever hear anything so ridiculous? The French and Germans spell it 'aluminium', too, but they're foreigners who don't speak Earth-standard. You'd think the British, however, using our language, would be more careful

    Isaac Asimov (1975). “Of matters great and small”
  • The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam
  • The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.

    Isaac Asimov (2008). “The Stars, Like Dust”, p.28, Tor Books
  • I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.

  • Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

    Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.110, Macmillan
  • The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam
  • When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

    "The Relativity of Wrong". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1996.
  • On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

  • The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.

    Isaac Asimov (1989). “Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective”, Doubleday Books
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