Isaac Asimov quotes

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...' (Isaac Asimov)
If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
Violence,” came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Isaac Asimov
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. (Isaac Asimov)
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.
Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov
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.
Isaac Asimov
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
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.
Isaac Asimov
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov
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. (Isaac Asimov)
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov
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.
Isaac Asimov
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
Isaac Asimov
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov