Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
ISAAC ASIMOVMan’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
ISAAC ASIMOVEducation isn’t something you can finish.
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 ASIMOVToday’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
ISAAC ASIMOVThere seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
ISAAC ASIMOVWhile he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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 ASIMOVI do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
ISAAC ASIMOVThere are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
ISAAC ASIMOVProperly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
ISAAC ASIMOVI figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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 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 ASIMOVThe day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
ISAAC ASIMOVDemocracy 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.
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