Isaac Asimov Quotes
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He is energetic only in evading responsibility.
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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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Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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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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Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.
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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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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary
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To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was 'system,' an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was 'industry,' indecision when right was 'caution,' and blind stubbornness when wrong, 'determination.'
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It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
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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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A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!
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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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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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For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment.'
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Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.
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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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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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If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.
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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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We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.