952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

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