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Isaac Asimov Quotes - Page 5

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Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

Love, Thinking, People

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Believe, Science, Law

"Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations". 1988.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.

Giving Up, Fighting, Winning

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Art, Two, Enemy

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Life, Writing, Doctors

Life (1984)

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.

Disappointment, Believe, People

Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.

Taken, Heart, Technological Change

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

Escaping, Tyrants, May

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.392, Spectra

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

Men, Brain, Three

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Children, Envy, Bird

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.

Atheist, Science, Epic

"The Relativity of Wrong". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1996.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Knowledge, Science, Perfect

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

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Loyalty, Foundation, Truth Is

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

I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.

Army, Fighting, Night

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Knowledge, Science, Thinking

Interview with Bill Moyers on October 21, 1988. "Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas". Book by Bill D. Moyers, 1989.

Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

Husband, Science, History

Isaac Asimov (1976). “Asimov on physics”, Doubleday Books

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

Animal, Humanity, Pet

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

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

Sleep, Next Day, Matter

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

Computer, Problem, Reaching

I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

Country, Kings, Real

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

"The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov. Chapter 25, 1983.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Science, Light, Single Relationship

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

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

People, Show Me, Shows

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.209, Spectra

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

Truth, Lying, Theory

Isaac Asimov (1989). “Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective”, Doubleday Books

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

Positive, Law Of Attraction, Facts

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.5, Spectra

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