Top 500 Isaac Asimov Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “People think of education as something they can finish.”

— Isaac Asimov

2. “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

— Isaac Asimov

3. “However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There’s no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference – but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.”

— Isaac Asimov

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4. “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

— Isaac Asimov

5. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

7. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”

— Isaac Asimov

8. “Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.”

— Isaac Asimov

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9. “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

— Isaac Asimov

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10. “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but ‘That’s funny...’”

— Isaac Asimov

11. “Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”

— Isaac Asimov

12. “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”

— Isaac Asimov

13. “All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.”

— Isaac Asimov

14. “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

— Isaac Asimov

15. “I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”

— Isaac Asimov

16. “There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”

— Isaac Asimov

17. “Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”

— Isaac Asimov

18. “It’s the writing that teaches you.”

— Isaac Asimov

19. “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

— Isaac Asimov

20. “Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”

— Isaac Asimov

21. “When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

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23. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

— Isaac Asimov

24. “Any planet is ‘Earth’ to those that live on it.”

— Isaac Asimov

25. “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”

— Isaac Asimov

26. “The intelligent man is never bored.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

28. “There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.”

— Isaac Asimov

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29. “The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.”

— Isaac Asimov

30. “There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.”

— Isaac Asimov

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31. “Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.”

— Isaac Asimov

32. “I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

34. “There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.”

— Isaac Asimov

35. “The law of conservation of energy tells us we can’t get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.”

— Isaac Asimov

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36. “The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”

— Isaac Asimov

37. “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

38. “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”

— Isaac Asimov

39. “Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”

— Isaac Asimov

40. “It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.”

— Isaac Asimov

41. “Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task – such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping – I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.”

— Isaac Asimov

42. “Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence.”

— Isaac Asimov

43. “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

— Isaac Asimov

44. “Economics is on the side of humanity now.”

— Isaac Asimov

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45. “They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.”

— Isaac Asimov

46. “A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”

— Isaac Asimov

47. “Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.”

— Isaac Asimov

48. “The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.”

— Isaac Asimov

49. “Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov