The best Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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

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

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

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

Past glories are poor feeding.

Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

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

He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

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

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.