So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. - Isaac Asimov
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity. - Isaac Asimov
Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. - Isaac Asimov
Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural. - Isaac Asimov
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. - Isaac Asimov
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. - Isaac Asimov
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. - Isaac Asimov
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. - Isaac Asimov
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - 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
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely. - Isaac Asimov
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine. - Isaac Asimov
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something. - Isaac Asimov
