It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A "simple aspect of science" may be defined as one which, through good fortune, I happen to understand.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“when the old empire began to rot at the fringes, it could be considered that science, as science, had failed the outer… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Pyscho-history dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl… — 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
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It is possible to be too stable. No Outer World has colonized a new planet in two and a half centuries.. are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“And just how did you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?" "In a rather simple way. It merely required the use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“In Hamilton 's The Universe Wreckers ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works,” — 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
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