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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Isaac Asimov Quotes

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - Isaac Asimov

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Funny, Great, People

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.

Change, Today, Society

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.

Life, Believe, Hell

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Doing, Morals, Right

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Future, Stars, Humanity

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Science, Today, Fiction

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

War, Living, Only

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Nature, Someone, Cruelty

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Funny, Science, New

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Anger, Violence, Last

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

Education, Believe, Kind

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. - Isaac Asimov

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

Communication, Thinking, Me

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Light, Science, Single

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

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

Life, Death, Transition

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Night, Drunk, Sound

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

War, World, Living

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Inspirational, Life, Good

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Medical, Men, Know

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

Computers, Honest, Working

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Learning, Knowledge, Wise

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

God, Today, Ignorance

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. - Isaac Asimov

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Finding, True, Knowing

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Fear, Computers, Lack

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

Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Die, Reason, Same

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Life, Reading, Men

Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: January 2, 1920

Died: April 6, 1992

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