The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — 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
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — 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
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to… — 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
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
“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object. — 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
