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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov

Funny Great
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov

Change Society Today
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac Asimov

True Rather Knowing
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Life Science Wisdom
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov

Funny Science
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

Life Death
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov

Art Thinking Simply
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov

Science Today Individual
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

Violence Last
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

Fear Computers
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov

Computers Once Honest
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac Asimov

Life Whatever
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov

Life Belief Good
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov

Humanity Future Lost
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov

Knowledge Ignorance
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov

Men Medical Number
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov

Nature Might
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov

Science Writers Problems
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov

Night Drunk
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov

Science Light Single

Biography

Nationality: American
Profession: Scientist
Birthdate: January 02, 1920

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