Author Profile
Isaac Asimov
1920 – 1992 • American • Scientist
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Showing 41 quotesAll 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.— Isaac Asimov
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Medical
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.— Isaac Asimov
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.— Isaac Asimov
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Business
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.— Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.— Isaac Asimov
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.— Isaac Asimov
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.— Isaac Asimov
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Future
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.— Isaac Asimov
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Life
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.— Isaac Asimov
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Medical
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.— Isaac Asimov
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.— Isaac Asimov
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War
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.— Isaac Asimov
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Education
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.— Isaac Asimov
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Science
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.— Isaac Asimov