Isaac Asimov Quotes

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

Funny, Great, Everything

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

Science, Life, Society

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

Science, Funny, Hear

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

Life, Death, Peaceful

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.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Hell, Whole

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

Violence, Last, Refuge

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

Drunk, Night, After

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.
Isaac Asimov

Science, Today, May

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

Life, Good, Yourself

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

Education, Firmly

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

Computers, Fear, Lack

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

Future, Important, Humanity

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

Knowledge, Ignorance, Through

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

Computers, Working, Honest

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

Knowledge, Learning, Wise

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

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

Change, 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

Decision, Made, Sensible

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

Society, American, Read

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.
Isaac Asimov

Business, Takes, Degree

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov

Medical, Men, Number

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

Nature, Someone, Human

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

God, Today, Ignorance

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Isaac Asimov

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

Science, Single, Light

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: January 2, 1920

Died: April 6, 1992

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