black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Isaac Asimov

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Atheist Force Reading Religious
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Believe Evidence Independent Myself Observation Reason Wild
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
ISAAC ASIMOV

One Liner Sound True
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Feeling Happiness Yourself
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Computer Fear Myself
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Confidence Myself Right Wrong
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Art Aspect Different Enemy Philosophy Science Whole
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
ISAAC ASIMOV

Fear Hold Past Time
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Easy Emotion Person Reason

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Isaac Asimov Quotes