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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A circle has no end.

You are the only one responsible for your own wants.

Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]

"Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always — all you did for me."

-I did nothing for you."

-You loved me and your love made me — human."

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

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

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.

"Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]"

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.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!