All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of… — 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
