952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

You are easy to explain – even to you.  You may call yourself a soul if that pleases you, but what you are is a nexus of electromagnetic forces, so arranged that all the interconnections and interrelationships are exactly imitative of those of your brain in your Universe-existence – down to the smallest detail.  Therefore you have your capacity for thought, your memories, your personality.  It still seems to you that you are you.

But people who are capable of thinking clearly are in a minority, of course.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Eventually, it had to be accepted that God had created invisible stars and this was the very first hint that perhaps the Universe had not been created with human welfare as its primary object (a point I have never seen stressed in histories of science)

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

It's the writing that teaches you.

The stars, like dust, encircle meIn living mists of light;And all of space I seem to seeIn one vast burst of sight

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

People think of education as something they can finish.