Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It… — 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
All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little… — 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
