--- title: "8 Hundred Quotes By Isaac Asimov" description: "8 Hundred quotes by Isaac Asimov. Plus more from Isaac Asimov and more Hundred sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/308/isaac-asimov-309_book_having-reached-451-books-as-of-now-doesn_453401.jpg" --- > [Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/having-reached-451-books-as-of-now-doesn-t-help-the-situation-if-i/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/308/isaac-asimov-309_book_having-reached-451-books-as-of-now-doesn_453401.jpg) > [Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/why-continue-because-we-must-because-we-have-the-call-because-it-is/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99c/isaac-asimov-309_atheism_why-continue-because-we-must-because-we_1521013.jpg) > [The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/the-fall-of-empire-gentlemen-is-a-massive-thing-however-and-not/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/isaac-asimov-309_bureaucracy_the-fall-of-empire-gentlemen-is-a-massiv_1659410.jpg) > [My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/my-feeling-is-that-as-far-as-creativity-is-concerned-isolation-is/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ded/isaac-asimov-309_concerned_my-feeling-is-that-as-far-as-creativity_1744876.jpg) > [One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/one-would-suppose-that-the-battle-for-religious-liberty-was-won-in/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a3/isaac-asimov-309_atheism_one-would-suppose-that-the-battle-for-re_1924765.jpg) > [I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/i-on-the-other-hand-am-a-finished-product-i-absorb-electrical-energy/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb3/isaac-asimov-309_conscious_i-on-the-other-hand-am-a-finished-produc_2529220.jpg) > [The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/the-tyranni-rule-fifty-worlds-they-are-outnumbered-hundreds-to-one-in/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1d/isaac-asimov-309_assassination_the-tyranni-rule-fifty-worlds-they-are-o_2548755.jpg) > [We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/we-mythologists-know-very-well-that-myths-and-legends-contain/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/074/isaac-asimov-309_borrowing_we-mythologists-know-very-well-that-myth_3092919.jpg) ## Other authors on Hundred ## More by Isaac Asimov > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/the-strain-of-anti-intellectualism-has-been-a-constant-thread-winding/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/suppose-that-we-are-wise-enough-to-learn-and-know-and-yet-not-wise/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/uncertainty-that-comes-from-knowledge-knowing-what-you-don-t-know-is/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/don-t-you-see-it-s-galaxy-wide-it-s-a-worship-of-the-past-it-s-a/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/so-the-universe-is-not-quite-as-you-thought-it-was-you-d-better/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/it-is-in-meeting-the-great-tests-that-mankind-can-most-successfully/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/it-might-seem-to-you-peter-that-a-truck-driver-one-step-above-an-ape/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/when-life-is-so-harsh-that-a-man-loses-all-hope-in-himself-then-he/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/you-are-a-military-man-and-should-know-better-if-there-is-one-science/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“temperatura constante de mais ou menos 21 graus”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/temperatura-constante-de-mais-ou-menos-21-graus/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/human-beings-can-tolerate-an-immortal-robot-for-it-doesn-t-matter-how/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/if-people-believe-this-they-would-act-on-that-belief-many-a-prophecy/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/i-do-not-use-airplanes-they-strike-me-as-unsporting-you-can-have-an/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/there-are-many-aspects-of-the-universe-that-still-cannot-be-explained/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. \[The Second Law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/a-robot-must-obey-the-orders-given-it-by-human-beings-except-where/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/isaac-asimov/#itemlist", "name": "8 Hundred Quotes By Isaac Asimov", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. 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