Isaac Asimov Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

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

“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.”

“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”

“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.”

“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

“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.”

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

“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.”