I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished… — 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
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength… — 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
