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Life Quotes by Isaac Asimov

54 Life quotes by Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov criticizes anti‑intellectualism that spreads through politics and culture. He wonders why many people avoid asking questions and seeks hope in hard times by looking to bright ideas. He also notes that married life can feel futile when arguments arise, and that happiness grows from thought and imagination.

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Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

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“Life is a successive symphony of losses.”

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Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

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All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.

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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

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Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far…

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All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the…

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Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

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“A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.”

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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“Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

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“History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.”

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy…

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont…

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“Actually, they where the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and…

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a…

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“Can't you try>? However useless the effort may seem to you to be, have you anything better to do with your life?…

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To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a…

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that…

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When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock,…

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“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is…

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“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the…

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“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…

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I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that…

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“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda…

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To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your…

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The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of…

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Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be…

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Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

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In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

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It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

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It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

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The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

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“The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.”

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“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted”

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