About Isaac Asimov:

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.

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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

Isaac Asimov

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

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

Isaac Asimov

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

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

Isaac Asimov

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

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

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

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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Isaac Asimov

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

Author Bio

NameIsaac Asimov
DescriptionAmerican author
AliasesIsaak Yudovich Osimov; Isaak Osimov; Paul French
BornJanuary 2, 1920
DiedApril 6, 1992
CountryUnited States Of America; Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
ProfessionBiochemist; Novelist; Prosaist; Autobiographer; Science Fiction Writer; Science Writer
WorksFoundation Series; Robot Series; Nightfall; The Intelligent Man's Guide To Science; I, Robot; The Bicentennial Man; The Gods Themselves
AwardsHugo Award; Nebula Award; Locus Award; Humanist Of The Year

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