Quote

An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

Isaac Asimov

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Isaac Asimov
Age: 72 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 2
Died: 1992
Died: April 6
Author
Autobiographer
Biochemist
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Scientist
Isaak Osimov
Paul French
Asimov
Isaak Ozimov
Atoms
Weapon
Weapons
Ways
Point
Way
Good
Atom

More quotes by Isaac Asimov

Image
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile
Isaac Asimov
Image
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
Image
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
Isaac Asimov
Image
You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
Isaac Asimov
Image
All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
Image
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
Isaac Asimov
Image
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier failing that, it does nothing.
Isaac Asimov
Image
The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern knowledge is that it is wrong.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.
Isaac Asimov
Image
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
Image
Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
Isaac Asimov