Isaac Asimov: Trending quotes (page 5)

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”

“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.”

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”

“There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.”

“It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.”

“It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.”

“Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.”

““Fifty years,” I hackneyed, “is a long time.”
“Not when you’re looking back at them,” she said. “You wonder how they vanished so quickly.””

“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.”

“Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.”

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”

“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”

“I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.”

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”

“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”

“You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”

“It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.”

“Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.”

“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”