952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we’re on our way.

Society is much more easily soothed than one’s own conscience.

So far, scientists have not uncovered any evidence that would hint that the workings of the Universe require the action of a divine being. On the other hand, scientists have uncovered no evidence that indicates that a divine being does not exist.

It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas.

The government doesn’t want any system of transmitting information to remain unbroken, unless it’s under its own control.

You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

We’re forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can’t be understood.

From the radiating point of Siwenna, the forces of the Empire reached out cautiously into the black unknown of the Periphery. Giant ships passed the vast distances that separated the vagrant stars at the Galaxy’s rim, and felt their way around the outermost edge of Foundation influence.

Naturally, there’s got to be a limit for I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.