--- title: "22 May Quotes By Isaac Asimov" description: "22 May quotes by Isaac Asimov. Plus more from Isaac Asimov and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe0/isaac-asimov-309_dream_dreams-may-be-impossible-yet-still-be-dr_952238.jpg" --- > [Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/dreams-may-be-impossible-yet-still-be-dreamed/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe0/isaac-asimov-309_dream_dreams-may-be-impossible-yet-still-be-dr_952238.jpg) > [A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/a-subtle-thought-that-is-in-error-may-yet-give-rise-to-fruitful/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/isaac-asimov-309_inquiry_a-subtle-thought-that-is-in-error-may-ye_588126.jpg) > [A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/a-robot-may-not-injure-a-human-being-or-through-inaction-allow-a/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b64/isaac-asimov-309_harm_a-robot-may-not-injure-a-human-being-or_2358902.jpg) > [Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/humanity-is-cutting-down-its-forests-apparently-oblivious-to-the-fact/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9a/isaac-asimov-309_able_humanity-is-cutting-down-its-forests-app_1015892.jpg) > [“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/i-consider-violence-an-uneconomical-way-of-attaining-an-end-there-are/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ff/isaac-asimov-309_crime_i-consider-violence-an-uneconomical-way_2751358.jpg) > [It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/it-is-precisely-because-it-is-fashionable-for-americans-to-know-no/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e40/isaac-asimov-309_educated_it-is-precisely-because-it-is-fashionabl_1396767.jpg) > [When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/when-asked-for-advice-by-beginners-know-your-ending-i-say-or-the/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d5/isaac-asimov-309_advice_when-asked-for-advice-by-beginners-know_1353934.jpg) > [Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/science-fiction-writers-foresee-the-inevitable-and-although-problems/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/270/isaac-asimov-309_fiction_science-fiction-writers-foresee-the-inev_987781.jpg) > [There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/there-never-can-be-a-man-so-lost-as-one-who-is-lost-in-the-vast-and/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78c/isaac-asimov-309_lonely_there-never-can-be-a-man-so-lost-as-one_1984933.jpg) > [Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/individual-science-fiction-stories-may-seem-as-trivial-as-ever-to-the/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1d/isaac-asimov-309_critics_individual-science-fiction-stories-may-s_1510011.jpg) > [In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/in-a-properly-automated-and-educated-world-then-machines-may-prove-to/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/607/isaac-asimov-309_computers_in-a-properly-automated-and-educated-wor_1452572.jpg) > [Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/although-we-will-hate-and-fight-the-machines-we-will-be-supplanted/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/isaac-asimov-309_aspire_although-we-will-hate-and-fight-the-mach_1389793.jpg) > [The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/the-tyranny-that-now-exists-is-actual-that-which-may-exist-in-the/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdf/isaac-asimov-309_change_the-tyranny-that-now-exists-is-actual-th_917206.jpg) > [There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/there-are-many-aspects-of-the-universe-that-still-cannot-be-explained/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/406/isaac-asimov-309_aspect_there-are-many-aspects-of-the-universe-t_64609.jpg) > [Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/science-is-dangerous-there-is-no-question-but-that-poison-gas-genetic/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/isaac-asimov-309_accounts_science-is-dangerous-there-is-no-questio_434407.jpg) > [Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/isn-t-it-sad-that-you-can-tell-people-that-the-ozone-layer-is-being/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6f/isaac-asimov-309_choke_isn-t-it-sad-that-you-can-tell-people-th_1689286.jpg) > [Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/why-continue-because-we-must-because-we-have-the-call-because-it-is/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99c/isaac-asimov-309_atheism_why-continue-because-we-must-because-we_1521013.jpg) > [One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/one-might-suppose-that-reality-must-be-held-to-at-all-costs-however/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/isaac-asimov-309_abstract_one-might-suppose-that-reality-must-be-h_2995764.jpg) > [The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/the-three-laws-of-robotics-1-a-robot-may-not-injure-a-human-being-or/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a96/isaac-asimov-309_conflict_the-three-laws-of-robotics-1-a-robot-may_2811440.jpg) > [At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/at-two-tenths-the-speed-of-light-dust-and-atoms-might-not-do/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/011/isaac-asimov-309_approach_at-two-tenths-the-speed-of-light-dust-an_2169371.jpg) > [The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/the-dangers-that-face-the-world-can-every-one-of-them-be-traced-back/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/930/isaac-asimov-309_accounts_the-dangers-that-face-the-world-can-ever_514887.jpg) > [A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/a-scientist-is-as-weak-and-human-as-any-man-but-the-pursuit-of/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/isaac-asimov-309_accounts_a-scientist-is-as-weak-and-human-as-any_2995393.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Isaac Asimov > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/the-strain-of-anti-intellectualism-has-been-a-constant-thread-winding/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/suppose-that-we-are-wise-enough-to-learn-and-know-and-yet-not-wise/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/uncertainty-that-comes-from-knowledge-knowing-what-you-don-t-know-is/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/don-t-you-see-it-s-galaxy-wide-it-s-a-worship-of-the-past-it-s-a/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/so-the-universe-is-not-quite-as-you-thought-it-was-you-d-better/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/it-is-in-meeting-the-great-tests-that-mankind-can-most-successfully/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/it-might-seem-to-you-peter-that-a-truck-driver-one-step-above-an-ape/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/when-life-is-so-harsh-that-a-man-loses-all-hope-in-himself-then-he/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/you-are-a-military-man-and-should-know-better-if-there-is-one-science/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“temperatura constante de mais ou menos 21 graus”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/temperatura-constante-de-mais-ou-menos-21-graus/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/human-beings-can-tolerate-an-immortal-robot-for-it-doesn-t-matter-how/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/if-people-believe-this-they-would-act-on-that-belief-many-a-prophecy/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/i-do-not-use-airplanes-they-strike-me-as-unsporting-you-can-have-an/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/there-are-many-aspects-of-the-universe-that-still-cannot-be-explained/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) > [A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. \[The Second Law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/a-robot-must-obey-the-orders-given-it-by-human-beings-except-where/) [Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": 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