952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.