Isaac Asimov

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen."

"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."

"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."

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."