952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

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

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks for more in the way of human response

Where the stars are scattered thinly,' quoted Barr, 'And the cold of space seeps in.

Hari Seldon called Trantor 'Star's End,' he whispered, 'and why not that bit of poetic imagery? All the universe was once guided from this rock; all the apron strings of the stars led here. 'All roads lead to Trantor,' says the old proverb, 'and that is where all stars end.

Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.