Scientist Quotes by Isaac Asimov

11 Scientist quotes by Isaac Asimov

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Asimov’s concise reflections capture the wonder and responsibility that scientists carry. Across eleven statements he blends his love for narrative with a reverence for the methodical pursuit of truth.

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A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

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Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being…

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Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be

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Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist…

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Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

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Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation…

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“even the purest and most high-minded scientist finds it expedient sometimes to assault the fortress of truth with the blunt weapon of…

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When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with…

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Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This…

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How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all…

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“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!”

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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.

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It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the…

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“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…

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When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,…

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“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is…

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“temperatura constante de mais ou menos 21 graus”

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“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…

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“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted”

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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…

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There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be…

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A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law…

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