Isaac Asimov Quotes

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness.

For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Варто бути простим і зрозумілим, особливо, якщо маєш репутацію підступної людини.

(commonly known as simply "The Foundation"

It doesn't matter who 'rules.' Petruchio and Katherina are in love and so long as love exists, 'ruler' and 'ruled' lose their meaning. Petruchio looked only for money, and got love, too. Katherina looked for nothing and got love. It is completely happy ending.

Baley tried to picture a world as a sphere being lit and unlit as it turned. He found it hard to do and felt scornful of the so-superior Spacers who let such an essential thing as time be dictated to them by the vagaries of planetary movements.

"A good reference book, the Columbia Encyclopedia. Best one-volume all-round reference in the world and more useful than the Britannica, even if it does waste an entry on Isaac Asimov."

"On whom?" asked Gonzalo.

"Asimov. Friend of mine. Science fiction writer and pathologically conceited. He carries a copy of the Encyclopedia to parties and says, 'Talking of concrete, the Columbia Encyclopedia has an excellent article on it only 249 pages after their article on me. Let me show you.' Then he shows them the article on himself."

My fury does not blind me.

They would have to be old, indeed, for star-positions to be misplaced.

Do you know what it is to play a part? To split your personality deliberately for twenty-four hours a day? Even when with friends? Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently? To be a dilettante? To be eternally amused? To be of no account? To be so effete and faintly ridiculous that you have convinced all who know you of your own worthlessness? All so that your life may be safe even though it means it has become barely worth living. But even so, once in a while I can fight them.

La palabra «libertad» no tiene sentido cuando se aplica a un robot. Sólo un ser humano puede ser libre.

Dr. Seldon, you disturb the peace of the Emperor’s realm. None of the quadrillions living now among all the stars of the Galaxy will be living a century from now. Why, then, should we concern ourselves with events of three centuries distance?” “I shall not be alive half a decade hence,” said Seldon, “and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we refer by the term, ‘humanity.’

Não se combate uma recusa em crer desfechando um ataque frontal.