Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. - Isaac Asimov
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong. - Isaac Asimov
What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse. - Isaac Asimov
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism. - Isaac Asimov
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough? - Isaac Asimov
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match. - 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
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. - Isaac Asimov
It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial. - Isaac Asimov
Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere. - Isaac Asimov
The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have. - Isaac Asimov
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. - Isaac Asimov
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole. - Isaac Asimov
