Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to… — 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
