“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
“It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University… — 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
“Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It lasted for a long time, I believe." "A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose… — 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
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of 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
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
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
