Universe Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

— Isaac Asimov

“We can't give up just because the Universe does.”

— Isaac Asimov

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

— Isaac Asimov

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter…

— Isaac Asimov

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and…

— Isaac Asimov

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange…

— Isaac Asimov

“I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right,…

— Isaac Asimov

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

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the…

— Isaac Asimov

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

— Isaac Asimov

Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which…

— Isaac Asimov

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the…

— Isaac Asimov

The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than…

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that…

— 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…

— Isaac Asimov

The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of…

— Isaac Asimov

And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to…

— Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that…

— Isaac Asimov

Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous…

— Isaac Asimov

“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century…

— Isaac Asimov