Isaac Asimov Quotes

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

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Education isn't something you can finish

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

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.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The intelligent man is never bored.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

The true delight is in finding out rather than in knowing.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

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

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

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

People think of education as something that they can finish.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.