“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”
Life
“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.”
BusinessAll Quotes by Isaac Asimov
“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”
Science“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
Science“To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.”
Nature“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
Computers“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”
Funny“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
Knowledge“It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
War“It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.”
Business“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
Education“He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.”
Men“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
Computers“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
Funny“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
Death“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
God“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
Science“John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
War“Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
War“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”
Change“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.”
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