The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith. — 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
“I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“With the slow fascination of fear, he lifted himself on one arm and turned his eyes toward the blood-curdling blackness of the… — 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
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