It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows. — 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
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — 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
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
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
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
To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that… — 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
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
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he… — 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 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
“A "simple aspect of science" may be defined as one which, through good fortune, I happen to understand.” — 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 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
[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 neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. — 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
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
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
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
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
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share