Isaac Asimov Quotes
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
