Isaac Asimov

"The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."