In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
"Isaac Asimov" 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 List of prolific writers/prolific and wrote 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.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous scientists! More Isaac Asimov on Wikipedia.You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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. . ..
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds up a mirror for you?
Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
If I am right, then [religious fundamentalists] will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If THEY are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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.
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