“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if… — 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
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or,… — 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
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
![“Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]” quote by Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/308/isaac-asimov-309_book_having-reached-451-books-as-of-now-doesn_453401.jpg)
