Mind Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Finished products are for decadent minds.

— Isaac Asimov

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

— Isaac Asimov

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

— Isaac Asimov

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete…

— Isaac Asimov

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

— Isaac Asimov

“Ben Estes knew he was going to die and it didn't make him feel any better to know that that was the…

— Isaac Asimov

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

— Isaac Asimov

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing…

— Isaac Asimov

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the…

— 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

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

— Isaac Asimov

I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to…

— Isaac Asimov

It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the…

— Isaac Asimov

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the…

— Isaac Asimov

In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite…

— Isaac Asimov

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater…

— Isaac Asimov

Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through…

— Isaac Asimov

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary…

— Isaac Asimov

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

“It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University…

— Isaac Asimov

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds…

— Isaac Asimov

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my…

— Isaac Asimov