Isaac Asimov (1919–92) 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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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
—Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
—Isaac Asimov
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
—Isaac Asimov
Topics: Change, Future
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
—Isaac Asimov
Topics: Integrity, Morality, Morals
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
—Isaac Asimov
Topics: Education, Progress, Self-improvement
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
—Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
—Isaac Asimov
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man’s habits change quickly enough?
—Isaac Asimov
Topics: Change
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
—Isaac Asimov
When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I’m writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.
—Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
—Isaac Asimov
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
—Isaac Asimov
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection…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.
—Isaac Asimov
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
—Isaac Asimov
Topics: Writers, Authors & Writing, Writing
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