Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Russian-born American author and biochemist
2 January 1920 — 6 April 1992

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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I would rather not like you for telling me not to do things, than not have you around to tell me not to do things.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That`s funny..."

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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

There`s no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I`ll have it in the face of death, or it`s useless.

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Man`s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I`ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

[Death] is an essential part of the successful functioning of life.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

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