Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid… — 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
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
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
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“What man does for his own desires and comforts affects the complex total-of-life, the ecology, and his short-term gains can bring long-term… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The trouble with you, Peter, is that when you think of a witness to a planetological statement, you think of planetologists. You divide up human beings into categories, and despise and dismiss most. A robot cannot do that. The First Law says, 'A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the importance of preserving the environment." "Surely," said Pelorat, "such a society would quickly be destroyed. I don't think it would be possible for human beings to fail to understand the importance of retaining the very factors that are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“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
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 it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know-even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction-than to gain eternal life at… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
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
