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
... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise-even in their own field.
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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.