952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

It’s always easy to explain the unknown by postulating a superhuman and arbitrary will.

It is as much my job to prevent harm to mankind as a whole as yours is to prevent harm to man as an individual.

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, ‘Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.’ I’m no god and I’ll contend no longer.

I’m being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

It is not important what can or cannot be done. What is important is what people will or will not believe can be done.

You lack the capacity to decipher this particular puzzle.

And after the Fall will come inevitable barbarism.

Well, not the stuff they use in robotics, which I wouldn’t follow, but sociological relationships I can handle. For instance, I’m familiar with the Teramin Relationship.” “The what, sir?” “Maybe you have a different name for it. The differential of inconveniences suffered with privileges granted: dee eye sub jay taken to the nth – – ” “What are you talking about?

His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.