Quotes from Isaac Asimov

No es desagradable la ostentación que esas gentes hacían de sus creaciones? ¿Quién puede ser tan estúpido como para creer a una persona que ensalza su propio producto? ¿Acaso va a confesar sus defectos? ¿Retrocederá ante cualquier exageración?

Get this,' the trader spoke forcefully and earnestly, 'there are five or six fat slobs who usually run an average planet. They get the rabbit punch, but I'm not losing peace of mind over them. See. The people? The ordinary run of guys? Sure, some get killed, and the rest pay extra taxes for a while. But it settles itself out; it runs itself down. And then it's the old situation again with a different five or six.

Nobody lives in splendid singleness.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

John 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.

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

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.

If there is a just God, how humanity would writhe in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and malice, "human" might be the greater insult.

Thus, the vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group of astronomers denounce it.

Birds sing sweetly, but someone awakened by them at 5 A.M. of a summer morning might dispute the adverb.

To many of us, the first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

If we were blind for one day each year, how we would enjoy the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Those who reject biological evolution do so, usually, not out of reason, but out of unjustified vanity.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.

When you say, "The burned child dreads the fire," you mean that he is already a master of induction.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Human beings can easily destroy every elephant on earth, but we are helpless against the mosquito.

The rainbow, "the bridge of the gods," proved to be the bridge to our understanding of light — much more important.

Religion considers the Universe deterministic and science considers it probabilistic — an important distinction.