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
Isaac Asimov quotes about
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit.
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
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.
Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing fine. And eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. We are now facing a possible dark age which is going to be world-wide and permanent! That's not fun. That's a different thing. But once we have established many worlds, we can do whatever we want as long as we do it one world at a time.
Computerization eliminates the middleman