At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
-
-
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
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 -
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
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 -
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
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 -
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
ISAAC ASIMOV






