952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

To Mankind And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won after all.

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

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence.

We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

Let us assume you’ve made your point.

Now tell me what happened – in words. I want your translation of the mathematics.

Being helpless is one of the things that isn’t altogether amusing.” – Gilbert.

They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.