336 quotes
I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.
Publishers, with their usual bravery, dumbed down their books in order to make money at the expense of leaving American children undereducated or, worse, miseducated.
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
They don't remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably "The Last Question".
The Last Question (1956)
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection.
The Roving Mind (1983)
There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.
The Foundation series (1951)
It is all too easy to forget that there are emotional motivations in history, as well as economic ones.
The Shaping of England (1969)
Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
Robot Dreams (1986)
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
At the slightest stress, human beings seemed to divide themselves into antagonistic groups.
The Foundation series (1951)
Men grew desperate and the border between bitter frustration and wild destruction is sometimes easily crossed.
Robot series (1950)
Ten years on the moon could tell us more about the universe than a thousand years on the earth might be able to.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
The division between human and robot is perhaps not as significant as that between intelligence and nonintelligence.
Robot series (1950)
I recognize the necessity of animal experiments with my mind but not with my heart.
There is less trouble and trauma involved in writing a new piece than in trying to salvage an unsatisfactory old one.
In Memory Yet Green (1979)
Writing is hard work. The fact that I love doing it doesn't make it less hard work.
In Joy Still Felt (1980)
To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.
The Gods Themselves (1972)
If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.
Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991)
Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with.