You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered… — 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
Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you… — 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
