People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Quotes by Isaac Asimov
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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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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.
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.
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.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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