Isaac Asimov Quotes

John 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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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