952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

Education isn't something you can finish