Isaac Asimov: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”

“The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity”

“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”

“Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?
A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
Q. You are sure that your statement represents scientific truth?
A. I am.”

“The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.”

“Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.”

“Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
           
-I did nothing for you.”
           
-You loved me and your love made me--human.”

“Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”

“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”

“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”

“The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.”

“In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.”

“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”

“Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.”

“Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”

“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”

“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”

“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.”

“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”