Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough? — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in… — 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
“We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another—sometimes by one that… — 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
I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Seldon, Hari—It is customary to think of Hari Seldon only in connection with psychohistory, to see him only as Mathematics and as… — 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 Image
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 Image
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
