“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to… — 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
