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Isaac Asimov Quotes - Page 15

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I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down,

I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Beautiful, Learning, Science

Isaac Asimov, Carl Howard Freedman (2005). “Conversations with Isaac Asimov”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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.

Insecurity, Height, Tests

Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.246, Macmillan

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

Knowledge, Science, Men

Isaac Asimov (1968). “The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences”

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

Life, Science, Tissues

It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.

Atoms, Way, Poor

Isaac Asimov (1991). “Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

Mind, Body, Might

Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.155, Macmillan

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

Mistake, Stupid, History

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.457, Spectra

I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

Strong, Silly, Self

Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Long, Forever, Limits

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.13, Spectra

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

Past, Giants, Relics

Isaac Asimov (1984). “Second foundation”, Del Rey

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

Remarkable

Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

Eye, Science, Gentleman

"Fact and Fancy". Book by Isaac Asimov, p. 11, 1962.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

Cutting, Tree, Humanity

The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.

Moon, Land, People

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

Running, Ignorance, Mean

When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."

Writing, Exercise, Typewriters

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

Next, Psychological, Wanted

Isaac Asimov (1951). “Foundation”

You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.

Long, Effort, Forever

Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.31, Macmillan

And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer - by demonstration - would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light...

Men, Light, Giving

"The Last Question". Science Fiction Quarterly, archive.org. November 1956.

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

Ignorance, Intuition, Cover Ups

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.377, Spectra

When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.

Book, Writing, Problem

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

Management, Process, Reluctance

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. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Change, Business, Mean

"My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.

Stupid, Silly, Light

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life - which is fundamentally dependent on light - to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.

Light, Darkness, Would Be

"Darkness in literature: 'Nightfall' by Isaac Asimov" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2012.

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