336 quotes
As one gets older and more rickety, and as medical technology advances, doctors love to play with their toys, using you as their victim.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
A robot, the man had said, is logical but not reasonable.
Robot series (1950)
Truth is a discredited commodity among diplomats.
Empire novels (1950)
Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Psychiatry is becoming too popular. Everybody talks of complexes and neuroses and psychoses and compulsions and whatnot. One man’s guilt complex is another man’s good night’s sleep.
The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990)
Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood?
You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.
The Foundation series (1951)
I shuddered at the thought of living in Florida, though, a place where six inches is a high elevation.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
The job of science will never be done, it will just sink deeper and deeper into never-ending complexity.
The Secrets of the Universe (1989)
It is better to go to defeat with free will than to live in a meaningless security as a cog in a machine.
The Foundation series (1951)
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
The Foundation series (1951)
It is the nature of science that answers automatically pose new and more subtle questions.
Self-preservation has frequently knuckled under to that tremendous yearning to ‘get even.’
The Early Asimov Book Two (1972)
Your emotions are, of course, only the children of your background and are not to be condemned - merely changed.
The Foundation series (1951)
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
Generals are, as a matter of course, allowed to be far more idiotic than ordinary human beings are permitted to be.
Our Federal Union (1975)
Apparently, mathematics and the martial arts are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
The Foundation series (1951)
In the world of today can there be peace anywhere until there is peace everywhere?
The Egyptians (1967)
Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.
Robot series (1950)
The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity.
In Memory Yet Green (1979)