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Isaac Asimov Quotes

Isaac Asimov quotes

American Scientist, Writer January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992

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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? Isaac Asimov
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely. Isaac Asimov
...centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves, rendered them useless now. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a..."
...Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child... Isaac Asimov
There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl alcohol, they called "wood spirit"; ethyl alcohol, "wine spirit." Even today, alcoholic beverages are frequently referred to as "spirits." (Modern Arabs, from whose language the word "alcohol" was taken, call ethyl alcohol "spirit" from the English. This is a queer exchange.) Isaac Asimov
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "People think of education as something they can finish."
People think of education as something they can finish. Isaac Asimov
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. Isaac Asimov
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low..."
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "All evil is good become cancerous."
All evil is good become cancerous. Isaac Asimov
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time."Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect..."
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
Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism..."
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. Isaac Asimov

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