Isaac Asimov Quotes
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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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.
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The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.
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'Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.'
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A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty. Q. You are sure that your statement represents scientific truth? A. I am.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.
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Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.
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It is better to go to defeat with free will than to live in a meaningless security as a cog in a machine.
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The spell of power never quite releases its hold.
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There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Books … hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
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'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'