I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes, indeed, but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ...… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?" "From you, Pappa",… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I am trying now to re-create in my mind the picture of the man as I saw him in 1939- he, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“In Hamilton 's The Universe Wreckers ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
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… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
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![“Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]” quote by Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/308/isaac-asimov-309_book_having-reached-451-books-as-of-now-doesn_453401.jpg)
