Isaac Asimov Quotes

Voy gülümsedi. "İşte bu fena. Ne zaman birisi belirli bir alanda tam bilgi sahibi olmadığını belirterek konuya girse, arkasından o konuda çok açık bir biçimde fikrini belirtecek demektir.

It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

She said, "I was just guessing."

He said, "No, you weren't. Whatever it was, it wasn't just guessing."

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Since I do not believe in so many things, it is not difficult for me to disbelieve in the Fall as well, so that I am entirely convinced I will be telling the truth to the people.

no human mind has created those equations directly. We have merely spent decades programming more powerful computers and they have devised and stored the equations, but, of course, we don't know if they are valid and have meaning. It depends entirely on how valid and meaningful the programming is in the first place.

Perhaps! Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young." Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life. You became mayor of the city when you were two years younger than I am now.

But murder applies specifically to human beings. One does not murder an animal, for instance.

She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.

Through the development of the mathematics necessary to understand the facts of neural physiology and the electrochemistry of the nervous system, which themselves had to be, had to be, traced down to nuclear forces, it first became possible to truly develop psychology.

Lord Dorwin took snuff. He also had long hair, curled intricately and, quite obviously, artificially, to which were added a pair of fluffy, blond sideburns, which he fondled affectionately. Then, too, he spoke in overprecise statements and left out all the r's.

El caso es que la humanidad no está distinguiéndose demasiado en la administración de los asuntos terrestres. Puede que llegue el día en que tengamos que hacernos humildemente a un lado y dejar las cosas en manos de quien las sepa llevar mejor. Y si no nos hacemos a un lado, es posible que llegue el Supercomputador y nos aparte por las malas.

All of life is a symphony of successive losses. You lose your youth, your parents, your loves, your friends, your comforts, your health, and finally your life. To deny loss is to lose it all anyway and to lose, in addition, your self-possession and peace of mind.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death,