Home » Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov 1 Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. Isaac Asimov Today, Science, Fiction Add to Collection 2 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. Isaac Asimov War, World, World War II Add to Collection 3 To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. Isaac Asimov Today, God, Ignorance Add to Collection 4 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. Isaac Asimov Learning, Knowledge, Wise Add to Collection 5 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. Isaac Asimov Decision, World Add to Collection 6 I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. Isaac Asimov Die, Reason, Breathe Add to Collection 7 I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. Isaac Asimov Communication, Speed Add to Collection 8 When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. Isaac Asimov Society, Government, Library Add to Collection 9 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. Isaac Asimov Medical, Men, Know Add to Collection 10 If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov Knowledge, Ignorance, Create Add to Collection 11 I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. Isaac Asimov Life, Live, Long Add to Collection 12 Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov Computers, Working, Once Add to Collection 13 There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. Isaac Asimov Light, Science, Single Add to Collection 14 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. Isaac Asimov War, World, World War II Add to Collection 15 It is not only the living who are killed in war. Isaac Asimov War, Living, Only Add to Collection 16 I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. Isaac Asimov Believe, Personal, Way Add to Collection 17 To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. Isaac Asimov Nature, Human, Someone Add to Collection 18 Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. Isaac Asimov Night, Drunk Add to Collection 19 It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. Isaac Asimov Reputation, Obvious Add to Collection 20 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. Isaac Asimov Business, Advertising Add to Collection 21 Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. Isaac Asimov Time, World, Disaster Add to Collection 22 Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. Isaac Asimov Science, Problems, Fiction Add to Collection 23 If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. Isaac Asimov Medical, Doctor Add to Collection 24 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. Isaac Asimov Life, Reading, Men Add to Collection 1 2 next › last »
