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
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
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — 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
“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
“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
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
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
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.… — 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
“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
“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 is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of… — 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
“What man does for his own desires and comforts affects the complex total-of-life, the ecology, and his short-term gains can bring long-term… — 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
“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
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
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life. — 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
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. — 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
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
