Isaac Asimov Quotes

• There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Belief, Death

  Tags in Faithful, Foolish

• I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Death, Fear

  Tags in Removing, Atheism

• So the universe is not quite as you thought it was.
  You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Belief, Wisdom

  Tags in Science, Universe

• It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in non scientists being wrong.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Politics

• The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading

• It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books

• Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• 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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Religion

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Religion

• Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Democracy, Knowledge, Life

  Tags in Elitist, Elite, Voting

• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in our society today… This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

• If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

• How many people is the earth able to sustain?

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Humor, Inspirational

  Tags in Prevent, Morals

• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  Isaac Asimov

  Tags in Library

• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Competence, Violence

• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Funny, God, Religion

  Tags in Premature, Science

Isaac Asimov (55)

Birth:	2nd January, 1920
Death:	6th April, 1992
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Historian, Humorist, Novelist, Professor, Writer

About

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.

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