Isaac Asimov Quotes

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Isaac Asimov

Profession : Scientist

Birth : January 2, 1920

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.

Isaac Asimov

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.

Isaac Asimov

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

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

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

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

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.

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

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Violence 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.

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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

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

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

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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.

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov