Quote

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

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
Interest
Interplay
Human
Motives
Humans
Studies
Motive
Interests
Fiction
Emotion
Study

More quotes by Isaac Asimov

Image
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.
Isaac Asimov
Image
A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.
Isaac Asimov
Image
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov
Image
In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?
Isaac Asimov
Image
I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.
Isaac Asimov
Image
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
Isaac Asimov
Image
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
Isaac Asimov
Image
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.
Isaac Asimov
Image
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.
Isaac Asimov
Image
All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.
Isaac Asimov
Image
True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily dumbing down.
Isaac Asimov
Image
All life is nucleic acid the rest is commentary.
Isaac Asimov
Image
And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.
Isaac Asimov