Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimovwas an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 January 1920
CityPetrovichi, Russia
CountryUnited States of America
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
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.