Top 15 Isaac Asimov Quotes

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

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

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

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of 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.

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

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

"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..."

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...

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

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

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.