Isaac Asimov Quotes (72 Quotes)

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers ... and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the universe is amenable to the scientific process.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'