Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’ — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A happy wall is a long-lived wall, a practical wall, a useful wall.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“There's a certain drama in going down in a good cause. Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. — 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
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. — 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
