952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

There's a certain drama in going down in a good cause.Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while theangels sing. But, -Dr. Lamont, to do that one has to have a fighting chance. One has to have something tofight for that may— justmay— win out.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

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.

the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

One by one Man fused with AC, each physical body losing its mental identity in a manner that was somehow not a loss but a gain.

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...