One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Ben Estes knew he was going to die and it didn't make him feel any better to know that that was the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the… — 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
It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite… — 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
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my… — 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
