Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
ISAAC ASIMOVToday’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
ISAAC ASIMOVNo 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 ASIMOVAll you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
ISAAC ASIMOVAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVAnd 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 ASIMOVEducation isn’t something you can finish.
ISAAC ASIMOVInspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
ISAAC ASIMOVTo succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
ISAAC ASIMOVI wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
ISAAC ASIMOVIn life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
ISAAC ASIMOVFeminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
ISAAC ASIMOVI am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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