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
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
Finished products are for decadent minds.
Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.
Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.