Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimovwas an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 January 1920
CityPetrovichi, Russia
CountryUnited States of America
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.