Isaac Asimov

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."