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May Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction,…
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
- A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
- Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that…
- The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every…
- Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in…
- One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not…
- Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.
- At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you…
- There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where…
- When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and…
- In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the…
- The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;…
- Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong