Isaac Asimov Quotes

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.

Have you ever come across something you couldn't explain?""Explain in what way? I could explain a ghost by saying, 'yes, that's a ghost.' I take it, that's not what you mean.

Have you ever come across something you couldn't explain?""Explain in what way? I could explain a ghost by saying, 'yes, that's a ghost.' I take it that's not what you mean.

We are gaining the knowledge science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

...Changelessness is decay.""A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.""Changelessness is a change for the worse...

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?

And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.

Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”            -I did nothing for you.”            -You loved me and your love made me--human.

Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.

It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.

People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...

For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning

There is no Master but the Master, ” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]

Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.

When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.