May Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

— Isaac Asimov

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

— Isaac Asimov

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

— Isaac Asimov

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

— Isaac Asimov

“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little…

— Isaac Asimov

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that…

— Isaac Asimov

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the…

— Isaac Asimov

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

— Isaac Asimov

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own…

— Isaac Asimov

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core…

— Isaac Asimov

Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which…

— Isaac Asimov

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines…

— Isaac Asimov

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw…

— Isaac Asimov

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may…

— Isaac Asimov

Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It…

— Isaac Asimov

Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the…

— Isaac Asimov

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to…

— Isaac Asimov

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,…

— Isaac Asimov

The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to…

— Isaac Asimov

At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but…

— Isaac Asimov

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the…

— Isaac Asimov

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

— Isaac Asimov