Isaac Quotes

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.

Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style."

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

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 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.

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

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

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.

Young fellows will be young fellows.

Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

Sincerity does not equal competence.

Never Again the Burning.

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.