All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers… — 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
On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed,… — 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
The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a… — 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
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — 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
