Quotes by Isaac Asimov

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
Category: computers
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“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
Category: computers
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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
Category: death
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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'”
Category: discovery
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“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
Category: ignorance
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“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”
Category: morality
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“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.”
Category: persistence
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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Category: violence
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“Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.”
Category: business
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“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”
Category: religion
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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”
Category: science
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Category: science
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“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”
Category: science
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“John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
Category: war
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“The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group of astronomers denounces it.”
Category: astrology
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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.”
Category: integrity
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“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.”
Category: religion
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“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..."”
Category: science
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“[John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
Category: war
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“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
Category: writing
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