Top 500 Isaac Asimov Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.”

— Isaac Asimov

52. “Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”

— Isaac Asimov

53. “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.”

— Isaac Asimov

54. “Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.”

— Isaac Asimov

55. “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”

— Isaac Asimov

56. “To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

59. “So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.”

— Isaac Asimov

60. “I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.”

— Isaac Asimov

61. “The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.”

— Isaac Asimov

62. “Emotionally I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.”

— Isaac Asimov

63. “Never judge your own writing. You’re not fit to do so.”

— Isaac Asimov

64. “And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.”

— Isaac Asimov

65. “The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

— Isaac Asimov

66. “What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind’s habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.”

— Isaac Asimov

67. “It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.”

— Isaac Asimov

68. “My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.”

— Isaac Asimov

69. “There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?”

— Isaac Asimov

70. “All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.”

— Isaac Asimov

71. “We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.”

— Isaac Asimov

72. “The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

74. “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”

— Isaac Asimov

75. “Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.”

— Isaac Asimov

76. “Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.”

— Isaac Asimov

77. “The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.”

— Isaac Asimov

78. “Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”

— Isaac Asimov

79. “I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don’t have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.”

— Isaac Asimov

80. “Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.”

— Isaac Asimov

81. “Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.”

— Isaac Asimov

82. “The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.”

— Isaac Asimov

83. “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”

— Isaac Asimov

84. “Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”

— Isaac Asimov

85. “If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.”

— Isaac Asimov

86. “Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.”

— Isaac Asimov

87. “A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.”

— Isaac Asimov

88. “Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.”

— Isaac Asimov

89. “The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.”

— Isaac Asimov

90. “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.”

— Isaac Asimov

91. “I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

93. “I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.”

— Isaac Asimov

94. “Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.”

— Isaac Asimov

95. “In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process.”

— Isaac Asimov

96. “Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.”

— Isaac Asimov

97. “A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.”

— Isaac Asimov

98. “The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

100. “Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.”

— Isaac Asimov