Isaac Asimov Quotes
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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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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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It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.
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'Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?' Pelorat said, 'If you list it like that-' 'List it any way you please,' said Trevize. 'I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.'
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When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.
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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 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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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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For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat’s are really deadly.
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Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
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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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SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.
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Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
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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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I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.
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I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.
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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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It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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The spell of power never quite releases its hold.
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I fear my ignorance.
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The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way…
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'That was the time to begin all-out preparations for war.' 'On the contrary. That was the time to begin all-out prevention of war.'
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I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.