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
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once..
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.