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Isaac Asimov Quotes & Sayings

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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. - Isaac Asimov



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



There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. - Isaac Asimov



Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov



Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely. - Isaac Asimov



Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. - Isaac Asimov



When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster. - Isaac Asimov



When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right. - Isaac Asimov



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. - Isaac Asimov



To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov



The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov



All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. - Isaac Asimov



The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny.' - Isaac Asimov



I don't believe in an after-life, 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. - Isaac Asimov