Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Actually, they where the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.” — 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,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy… — 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… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions—not even thinking of questions to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Rabbi Loew of sixteenth-century Prague. He is supposed to have formed an artificial human being—a robot—out of clay, just as God had… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“An individual life is one thread in the tapestry and what is one thread compared to the whole?” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“But it was more than a planet; it was the living pulse beat of an Empire of twenty million stellar systems. It… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?" "From you, Pappa",… — 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
