Isaac Asimov Quotes

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.

Isaac Asimov

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• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Stop

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Laws

• We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • America
  • Story
  • Forgotten

• After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Bored

• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Devil
  • Him
  • Prepare

• I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • House

• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Better
  • Theory
  • Before

• Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Home
  • California
  • Rain

• When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Different
  • Strange

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Funny

• Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Aging

• Fair Elphin, dry your cheeks! Such sorrow does not become you, Although you consider yourself cheated Excessive sorrow gains nothing, Nor will doubting God's miracles.

  

  Taliesin
  • God

• Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Writing
  • Prayer
  • Celebration

• These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Picture

• I'm someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Weird

• Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Driving
  • Storm

• I've been going long enough to prove what I wanted to prove, to get the girl I wanted to get, to make the money I wanted to make, to drink all the beer I wanted to drink. I've played - not exactly everywhere, but I've played enough places.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Money
  • Want
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Isaac Asimov