If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with… — 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
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
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters. In between two of the segments she asked me: "But what would you do… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists… — 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
