Isaac Asimov Quotes

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

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.

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

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

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

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.

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.

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.

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

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