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50 Wise Isaac Asimov Quotes


Isaac Asimov was an writer and professor of biochemistry. In his entire lifetime, he wrote more than 500 books and over 80,000 letters. He was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers. Foundation, I, Robot, are some of his most notable works.

Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi Russian SFSR. His birthday has never been identified but the 2nd of January is widely celebrated as his birthday. He was named after his maternal grandfather. In his early childhood, he suffered from double pneumonia but managed to survive. He taught himself reading English at the age of five. He went to New York City public schools and Boys High School in Brooklyn.

Isaac Asimov joined Boston University School of Medicine as a faculty and taught biochemistry. Pebble in the Sky was the first noble of him. It was science fiction and the first of the "Greater Foundation" series. Building blocks of the universe brought him the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Award for best science book for youth in 1957.

He was a fast typer and could type 90 words a minute. Asimov used to think about the end of the story first. He wrote and published trilogies, Novels, Short-story collections, Mysteries, Nonfiction, and essays. I. Asimov: A Memoir is the Autobiography of the author.

It's widely believed that Isaac Asimov changed Science Fiction And The World through his writings. Human liberty and freedom inspired him. Today he is considered one of the most influential authors of all time. These are 50 magnificently wise quotes from Isaac Asimov.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov
It is not only the living who are killed in war. Isaac Asimov
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. Isaac Asimov
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. Isaac Asimov
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. 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
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. Isaac Asimov
The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity. Isaac Asimov
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch. Isaac Asimov
People think of education as something they can finish. Isaac Asimov
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage. 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
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists. Isaac Asimov
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. Isaac Asimov
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov
All evil is good become cancerous. Isaac Asimov
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. Isaac Asimov
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. Isaac Asimov
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. Isaac Asimov
The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides. Isaac Asimov
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo. Isaac Asimov
Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning. Isaac Asimov
Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see. Isaac Asimov
Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty. Isaac Asimov
Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true. Isaac Asimov
A circle has no end. Isaac Asimov
You are the only one responsible for your own wants. Isaac Asimov
A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. Isaac Asimov
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading. Isaac Asimov
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. Isaac Asimov
It's the writing that teaches you. Isaac Asimov
You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack. Isaac Asimov
In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light. Isaac Asimov
Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. Isaac Asimov
The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. Isaac Asimov
Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. Isaac Asimov
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency. Isaac Asimov
Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun. Isaac Asimov
Past glories are poor feeding. Isaac Asimov
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy. Isaac Asimov
If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true. Isaac Asimov
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise. Isaac Asimov
Encyclopedias don’t win wars. Isaac Asimov
You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life. Isaac Asimov

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