Quotes by Isaac Asimov

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

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.

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.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial.' For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

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.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an insatiable curiosity and a stubborn refusal to quit.

Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate?

Ten years on the moon could tell us more about the universe than a thousand years on the earth might be able to.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Khía cạnh đáng buồn nhất của cuộc sống bây giờ là khoa học thu thập kiến ​​thức nhanh hơn so với xã hội thu thập trí tuệ.

Những người cho rằng họ biết tất cả mọi thứ là một phiền toái lớn cho những gì chúng ta làm.

Niềm vui thật sự trong việc phát hiện ra hơn là trong sự hiểu biết.

Viết lách, với tôi, chỉ đơn giản là suy nghĩ thông qua những ngón tay của tôi.

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