Quotes By Isaac Asimov

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

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

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

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

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

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 is not only the living who are killed in war.

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

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

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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

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

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.