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Isaac Asimov Quotes

Isaac Asimov quotes

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

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The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. Isaac Asimov
On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward. 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. Isaac Asimov
If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown. Isaac Asimov
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "There is a single light of science, and to brighten it..."
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power."
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has..."
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways."
An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been..."
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. Isaac Asimov
The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (±75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity. Isaac Asimov
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason. Isaac Asimov
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov quote: "It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young..."
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition. Isaac Asimov
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there. Isaac Asimov

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