Quote

In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

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
Easier
Individual
Pleasanter
Made
Responses
Make
Several
Think
Individuals
Thinking
Presence
Life
Response
Whose

More quotes by Isaac Asimov

Image
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better
Isaac Asimov
Image
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I don't believe in personal immortality the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov
Image
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
Isaac Asimov
Image
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
Isaac Asimov
Image
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.
Isaac Asimov
Image
The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
Isaac Asimov
Image
We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Image
The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity
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
Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.
Isaac Asimov
Image
There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Past glories are poor feeding.
Isaac Asimov
Image
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
Image
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.
Isaac Asimov
Image
Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Isaac Asimov