3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You’d be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov 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.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov 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.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov 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.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov 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.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov 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.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov 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.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov 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.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov 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.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
