Quotes by Isaac Asimov

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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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means tha...

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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that

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'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.

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Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un...

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Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen.

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I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equa...

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Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death? No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. One person recently, goaded into desperation...

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All evil is good become cancerous.

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Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them.

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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

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Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

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

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Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.

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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

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One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated ...

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Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?" "From you, Pappa", I said. "From me? I don't know any of this". "You didn't have to, Pappa", I said. "You valued learning and you taught me to value it....

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Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than a...

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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

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The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

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To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

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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