952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.