Isaac Asimov Quotes
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I suppose he’s entitled to his opinion, but I don’t suppose it very hard.
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Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.
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Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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Economics is on the side of humanity now.
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Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.
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Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.
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But suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?
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Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.
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A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!
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In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.
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When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.
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I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
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We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.
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He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.
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'Reason', p. 63
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Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.
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All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary
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He believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don’t believe in it at all.
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Titles are an important part of a story and I take considerable care in choosing one. In fact, I cannot start a story until I have chosen a title.
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If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.