Isaac Asimov

"Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning."

"If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true."

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."