You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOVIf 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 ASIMOVI do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOVPeople think of education as something that they can finish.
ISAAC ASIMOVIt has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
ISAAC ASIMOVAnything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
ISAAC ASIMOVToday’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
ISAAC ASIMOVIntelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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 most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
ISAAC ASIMOVThere seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
ISAAC ASIMOVIf knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
ISAAC ASIMOVHuman beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
ISAAC ASIMOVMan’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
ISAAC ASIMOV