Isaac Asimov

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

— Isaac Asimov

“It is a difficult choice sometimes whether to feel revolted at the male sex or merely to dismiss them as contemptible.”

— Isaac Asimov

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once..

— Isaac Asimov

“The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.”

— Isaac Asimov

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov

In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the…

— Isaac Asimov

“Does everyone just believe what he wants to?" "As long as possible. Sometimes longer." "What about you?" "You mean, am I human?…

— Isaac Asimov

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible…

— Isaac Asimov

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines…

— Isaac Asimov

The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces…

— Isaac Asimov

“And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed…

— Isaac Asimov

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable…

— Isaac Asimov

“Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions—not even thinking of questions to…

— Isaac Asimov

There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.…

— Isaac Asimov

The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores…

— Isaac Asimov

“It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone…

— Isaac Asimov

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

— Isaac Asimov

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he…

— Isaac Asimov

“History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.”

— Isaac Asimov

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

— Isaac Asimov

“She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.”

— Isaac Asimov

“It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.”

— Isaac Asimov

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art…

— Isaac Asimov

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

— Isaac Asimov

“Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn’t say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.”

— 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

“These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis…

— Isaac Asimov

“The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

— Isaac Asimov

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

— Isaac Asimov

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the…

— Isaac Asimov

“A "simple aspect of science" may be defined as one which, through good fortune, I happen to understand.”

— Isaac Asimov

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

— Isaac Asimov

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

— Isaac Asimov

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

— Isaac Asimov

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished…

— Isaac Asimov