I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced… — 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 took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions… — 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
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring… — 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
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