Simson Garfinkel, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, once said that “Asimov was first a genius, second a prolific writer, and only thirdly a sci-fi writer.” Yes, everything happens for a reason, therefore, take your time and look at quotes about love‘ collection of Isaac Asimov Quotes about Science, writing and life experience from this American author and Professor of biochemistry.
Notable Isaac Asimov Quotes about Science
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
Library funds are being cut and cut, American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Notable Isaac Asimov Quotes on writing
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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.
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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.
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups:
those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review
those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.
I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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.
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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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.
Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Notable Isaac Asimov funny quotes about life
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Any planet is ‘Earth’ to those that live on it.
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Nonviolence doesn’t always work, but violence never does.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.
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.
Three laws of Robotics
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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