Isaac Asimov

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."