Isaac Asimov

Quotes

• “What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered fo...”
• “Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrid...”
• “You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send th...”
• “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 w...”
• “Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than...”
• “Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.”
• “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
• “My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing.”
• “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
• “To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
• “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
• “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
• “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
• “If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.”
• “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
• “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
• “I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
• “The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”
• “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
• “Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
• “Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen.”