952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.