black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There 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 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

Believe Boredom Fear Heaven Hell Life Myself Thinking
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Deep Reading Speed Understand
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
ISAAC ASIMOV

End Happiness History
Feminine 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 ASIMOV

Acceptance Discrimination Equality Face Intelligence Intuition Investment Man Woman Yourself
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Feeling Happiness 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
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Computer Fear Myself
And 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 ASIMOV

Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
No 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 ASIMOV

Decision Philosophy World
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
ISAAC ASIMOV

Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Feeling Goodness Natural

There 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Isaac Asimov Quotes