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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Written by Isaac Asimov
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Written by Isaac Asimov
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Written by Isaac Asimov
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Written by Isaac Asimov
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Written by Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Written by Isaac Asimov
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Written by Isaac Asimov
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.
Written by Isaac Asimov
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Written by Isaac Asimov
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.
Written by Isaac Asimov
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.
Written by Isaac Asimov
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Written by Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Written by Isaac Asimov
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.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Written by Isaac Asimov
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Written by Isaac Asimov
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Written by Isaac Asimov
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Written by Isaac Asimov
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Written by Isaac Asimov
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.
Written by Isaac Asimov
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Written by Isaac Asimov
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Written by Isaac Asimov

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