Isaac Asimov Quotes

American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)

Isaac Asimov (c. 2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992) was a Russian-born American biochemist who was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, his works include the Foundation series and I, Robot.

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Alternative Names: Isaak Osimov • Paul French • Asimov • Isaak Ozimov • Itzhak Ozimov

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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

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

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don't know how to fix themselves.

Past glories are poor feeding.

you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

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

The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday's love is part of today's and the confidence in tomorrow's love is also part of today's. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die — I almost believe, rationalist though I am — that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.