Nature Quotes by Isaac Asimov

How many people is the earth able to sustain?

— Isaac Asimov

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

— Isaac Asimov

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

— Isaac Asimov

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

— Isaac Asimov

“Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the…

— Isaac Asimov

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

— 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

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

— Isaac Asimov

To insult someone we call him estial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult.

— Isaac Asimov

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that…

— 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

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if…

— Isaac Asimov

“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned…

— Isaac Asimov

The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than…

— Isaac Asimov

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point,…

— Isaac Asimov

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and…

— Isaac Asimov

I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every…

— Isaac Asimov

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against…

— Isaac Asimov

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

— Isaac Asimov