Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light. — 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
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing… — 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 is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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 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
“All right, Schwartz, tackle my mind now. Go as deep as you want. I was born on Baronn in the Sirius Sector.… — 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 through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“I am trying now to re-create in my mind the picture of the man as I saw him in 1939- he, 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
