Quotes from Isaac Asimov

All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.

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.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

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.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

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

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'

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 whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

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

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

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.

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.