Quotes by Isaac Asimov

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. 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

Life

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

— Isaac Asimov

Education

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

— Isaac Asimov

Education

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

— Isaac Asimov

Life

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

— Isaac Asimov

Courage

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

— Isaac Asimov

Hope

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom

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

Life

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

— Isaac Asimov

Education

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

— Isaac Asimov

Education

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

— Isaac Asimov

Life

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

— Isaac Asimov

Education

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

Courage

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

— Isaac Asimov

Life

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

— Isaac Asimov

Education

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

— Isaac Asimov

Education