Isaac Asimov quotes

Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born American writer and professor, renowned for his works of science fiction and popular science. A prolific author, he wrote or edited more than 500 books across a wide range of subjects. He became especially famous for his "Foundation" and "Robot" series, and is celebrated as one of the greatest science fiction writers in history. Here are 363 of his quotes:

If my doctor told me I had only six months to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Isaac Asimov

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Violence,” came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Isaac Asimov

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Isaac Asimov

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Isaac Asimov

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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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.

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

Isaac Asimov

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov