Time Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

— Isaac Asimov

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

— Isaac Asimov

“Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.”

— Isaac Asimov

“It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.”

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There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the…

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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

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They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

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There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

— Isaac Asimov

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded,…

— Isaac Asimov

On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed,…

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly…

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“the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever…

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“It lasted for a long time, I believe." "A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come…

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“We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is…

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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose…

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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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Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying…

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Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television.…

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“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

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the…

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Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world,…

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I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that…

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You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the…

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Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be…

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“In Hamilton 's The Universe Wreckers ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a…

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“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

“Who?” “Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, ‘Against stupidity, the gods…

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“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of…

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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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I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus…

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Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he…

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“Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted…

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Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished…

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The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

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No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like…

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All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by…

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They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in…

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The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw…

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This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the…

— Isaac Asimov

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