Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough? — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. — 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
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
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the… — 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
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring… — 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
