Isaac Asimov

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

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

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

"Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen."

"My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing."

"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."

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