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
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
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
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
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
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. — 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
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
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
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
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
