There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless. — 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
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
“You can’t maintain discipline that way.” Mallow said icily, “I can. There’s no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I’ll have it… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It was odd how that last deed caught the imagination of the world. All that Andrew had done before had not swayed… — 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
I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of… — 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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/308/isaac-asimov-309_book_having-reached-451-books-as-of-now-doesn_453401.jpg)
![“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too long. Baleyworld would sink into conversation and decay - as your world has done.” quote by Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b92/isaac-asimov-309_complacency_i-wouldn-t-want-the-people-of-baleyworld_1779163.jpg)
