Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — 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… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that… — 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 soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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 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
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 it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know-even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction-than to gain eternal life at… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — 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 it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know-even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction-than to gain eternal life at… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
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
