Isaac Asimov Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It's the writing that teaches you.

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

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

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

All evil is good become cancerous.

It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job
that he isn't worth discussing.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

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

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad.

Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen.