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Isaac Asimov Quotes
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn. Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.
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.
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
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge
faster than society gathers wisdom.
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.
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.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour would take over 48 million years to reach the nearest star (other than our sun), Proxima Centauri. This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes.
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