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
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — 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
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“Can't you try>? However useless the effort may seem to you to be, have you anything better to do with your life?… — 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
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
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
