952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Öğrenmek demek ufkunuzu genişletmek, daha fazla şey yaşamak ve kendinize farklı yaşam alanları yaratmak demektir. ... Bilgi yalnızca güç değildir; bilgi mutluluktur ve bilginin size öğretilmesi ise entelektüel manada, sevilmekle eşdeğerdir.

You can't understand human motivation. You can only understand your damned machines because you're a machine yourself, with skin on.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There’s no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.

Supongo que no hay manera de hacer regresar la nube con forma de hongo a esa bonita y reluciente esfera de uranio.

You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.