black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.

Isaac Asimov

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

Atheist Force Reading Religious
You 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 ASIMOV

Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Discover Philosophy Universe Way
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Enough Existence God Honesty Opinion Understand
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
ISAAC ASIMOV

Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Advice Chess Game Life
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
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Moral Right Way Youreslf
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
People think of education as something that they can finish.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Intelligence Nation Patriot Safety Stupidity
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

Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
ISAAC ASIMOV

Discover Excitement Funny Science
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Fools Greatness Security Success
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Delight True Wisdom

Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Isaac Asimov Quotes