Isaac Asimov Quotes
-
There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
-
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.
-
There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.
-
Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
-
You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.
-
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.
-
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
-
Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.
-
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.
-
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
-
Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
-
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
-
To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
-
It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.
-
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.
-
I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.
-
'You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason-if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.'
-
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
-
When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.
-
'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
-
I fear my ignorance.
-
'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.'
-
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!
-
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…