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
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.
A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.
Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
It's the writing that teaches you.
Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.