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Isaac Asimov Quotes about Science - Page 2

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Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to

Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked in school.

Teacher, School, Science

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

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

Children, Science, Lifelong

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

Time, Knowledge, Science

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Writing, Science, Fiction

1975 'How Easy To See The Future', in Natural History, Apr.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

Science, Unlikely, Neat

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

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

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.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

Science, World, May

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

Knowledge, Science, Arrogance

Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.

Future, Science, Space

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

Writing, Knowledge, Science

Isaac Asimov, Carl Howard Freedman (2005). “Conversations with Isaac Asimov”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Science, Hands, Order

Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.

God, Science, Years

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Atheist, Science, Religion

Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

Fall, Science, Moon

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