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Quote DB :: Authors :: Isaac Asimov :: View Quote View Quote "The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Isaac Asimov Listed in: Science Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4  Rate Quote 6 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Isaac Asimov "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'" "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." "Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers." Top 5 quotes from Science "Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." "Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them." "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" "All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it."

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