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“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.”

Isaac Asimov

As quoted in Philosophy on the Go (2007) by Joey Green, p. 222
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“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 3
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

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

Isaac Asimov book The Gods Themselves

Section 3, Chapter 19, p. 287
Source: The Gods Themselves (1972)

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

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Source: Foundation

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

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Variant: It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
Source: Foundation

“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.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 13
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

““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.””

Isaac Asimov book I, Robot

“Introduction”, p. 8
Source: I, Robot (1950)

“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.”

Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov book Pebble in the Sky

Source: Pebble in the Sky

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

Isaac Asimov

“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.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Source: Foundation

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

Isaac Asimov

Variant: I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

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

Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”

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

Isaac Asimov book Foundation’s Edge

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 11 “Sayshell” section 3, p. 205
Source: Foundation's Edge
Context: Pelorat sighed. “I will never understand people.”
“There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... 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.”

Isaac Asimov book I, Robot

Source: I, Robot

“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.”

Isaac Asimov

Source: I. Asimov