Top 500 Isaac Asimov Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.”

— Isaac Asimov

152. “It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.”

— Isaac Asimov

153. “Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”

— Isaac Asimov

154. “Saying something is ‘too bad’ is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It’s a lot worse than ‘too bad.’ It’s against everything decent and natural.”

— Isaac Asimov

155. “Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.”

— Isaac Asimov

156. “All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can’t be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.”

— Isaac Asimov

157. “At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .”

— Isaac Asimov

158. “The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.”

— Isaac Asimov

159. “Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.”

— Isaac Asimov

160. “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

161. “It is not only the living who are killed in war.”

— Isaac Asimov

162. “I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.”

— Isaac Asimov

163. “There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.”

— Isaac Asimov

164. “Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.”

— Isaac Asimov

165. “Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?”

— Isaac Asimov

166. “There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.”

— Isaac Asimov

167. “The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.”

— Isaac Asimov

168. “I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.”

— Isaac Asimov

169. “Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw.”

— Isaac Asimov

170. “Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics,” and here they are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.”

— Isaac Asimov

171. “It is enough for a Psychohistorian, as such, to know his Biostatistics and his Neurochemical Electromathematics. Some know nothing else and are fit only to be statistical technicians. But a Speaker must be able to discuss the Plan without mathematics.”

— Isaac Asimov

172. “I’m forty-nine, not fifteen, and I’ve made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome – but I’d still be stupid. So, in the long run, I’ve won out.”

— Isaac Asimov

173. “Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.”

— Isaac Asimov

174. “I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.”

— Isaac Asimov

175. “When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.”

— Isaac Asimov

176. “I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.”

— Isaac Asimov

177. “I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing – to be clear.”

— Isaac Asimov

178. “We all know we fall. Newton’s discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.”

— Isaac Asimov

179. “People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.”

— Isaac Asimov

180. “Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be.”

— Isaac Asimov

181. “But people who are capable of thinking clearly are in a minority, of course.”

— Isaac Asimov

182. “Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.”

— Isaac Asimov

183. “Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.”

— Isaac Asimov

184. “Baley distrusted overstatement and had no liking for the armchair deducer who discovered certainty rather than probability in the workings of logic.”

— Isaac Asimov

185. “Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.”

— Isaac Asimov

186. “The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.”

— Isaac Asimov

187. “After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.”

— Isaac Asimov

188. “Where the stars are scattered thinly,′ quoted Barr, ‘And the cold of space seeps in.”

— Isaac Asimov

189. “No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.”

— Isaac Asimov

190. “A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

— Isaac Asimov

191. “Past glories are poor feeding.”

— Isaac Asimov

192. “The colonization of space is the only possible salvation of Earth.”

— Isaac Asimov

193. “A persistent rumor has circulates in the USA: There are two intelligent races living on the surface of planet Earth: the standard people and the hungarians.”

— Isaac Asimov

194. “It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.”

— Isaac Asimov

195. “How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.”

— Isaac Asimov

196. “Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.”

— Isaac Asimov

197. “It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

— Isaac Asimov

198. “A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is – or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Isaac Asimov

200. “The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel – but who?”

— Isaac Asimov