58 result(s) for Isaac Asimov Quotes.
"The only constant 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."
"It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics."
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
"Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world."
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.'"
"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."
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
"The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change. That is the dominant factor in society today, no matter what the self-styled conservatives may say."
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
"It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition."
"Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
"The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists."
"The saddest words in the English language are 'I might have been.'"
"To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well."
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."
"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
"In fully developed technology, there is no change, except death."
"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.'"
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"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
"You must keep sending work out. You must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer."
"A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
"The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise."
"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
"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."
"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."
"Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be."
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
"A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
"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."
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dose alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny…'"
"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."
"The Earth, I am sure, does not miss a satellite."
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
"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.'"
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
"It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics."
"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."
"The saddest words in the English language are, 'What could have been.'"
"Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes."
"The only constant is change."
"I write for the same reason I breathe... because if I didn't, I would die."
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
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