Isaac Quotes

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Life is a nonstop circle; learn to live it from the first round.

Too much of whatever is dangerous.

Poverty is the lack of light.

Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight.

Underdevelopment is a lack of maintenance.

There's definitely a melancholic ingredient in Cafe Tacvba concerts in the United States versus in other places.

To insult someone we call him 'besti*l'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

To insult someone we call him 'besti*l. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

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

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

People think of education as something they can finish.

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.

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants

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.

Talent was not rare

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.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

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.