To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters. In between two of the segments she asked me: "But what would you do… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but… — 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
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
It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught… — 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
