Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that… — 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
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of… — 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 Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed… — 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
