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 happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
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.
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.
Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.