Isaac Asimov

"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."

"Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen."

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

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

"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."

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

"Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad."

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

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

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."

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

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

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

"What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for."

"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."

"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."

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."