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Isaac Asimov Quotes - Page 7

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Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my

Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

Writing, Science, Love Is

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Robots, May, Harm

'I, Robot' (1950) in 'Runaround'

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

Gratitude, Doe, Phrases

Isaac Asimov (2004). “Foundation and Empire”, p.122, Spectra

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Atheist, Science, Years

Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

Cutting, Self, Humanity

Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

Gains, Forbidden, All Time

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.242, Spectra

The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.

Technology, Hands, Independence

"Past, Present, and Future".

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

Jobs, Laughter, Pain

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Fear, Atheism, Outsiders

Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

Creativity, Creative, World

"Isaac Asimov Asks, 'How Do People Get New Ideas?'". Essay by Isaac Asimov on creativity, www.technologyreview.com. 1959.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

Greed, Too Much, Asks

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

Men, Human Nature, Enough

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

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Dream, Religious, Atheist

"Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

Sea, Rivers, Advice

Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.83, Bantam

The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Order, Law, Long

Isaac Asimov (1979). “In memory yet green: the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954”, Doubleday Books

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophy

Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.32, Bantam

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

Writing, Long Ago, Mind

"Nemesis". Book by Isaac Asimov. Introduction, 1989.

Finished products are for decadent minds.

Mind, Products, Finished

Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.67, Spectra

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Discovery, Doe, Revolutionary

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

Steps, Robots, Lasts

Isaac Asimov (1983). “The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels”, Doubleday Books

All evil is good become cancerous.

Evil

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

Quests, Satisfaction, Scientist

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

Creative, Lucky, Machines

"What 2014 Looked Like 50 Years Ago" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2014.

When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

Science, Ideas, Elderly

Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1977.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity

Finals, Infinity, Eternity

Isaac Asimov (1979). “The Far Ends of Time and Earth”

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