It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — 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
The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that… — 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
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“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 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
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“even the purest and most high-minded scientist finds it expedient sometimes to assault the fortress of truth with the blunt weapon of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already… — 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
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe. — 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
“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 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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