Isaac Quotes

Even though being a kid is kind of a carefree sort of thing for the most part, I guess there are definitely a lot of things that stick in kids' minds.

Nobody stays exactly the same. You'll definitely know it's Hanson, but we're constantly changing.

It's so unattractive, I'm sorry.

I could go to juvie instead of real prison.

It's so cool to get to talk to fans, to find out where they're from and why they bought the records.

A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

Just like styles change, music changes.

I'm paid to preach not to practice.

It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

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.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.