Isaac asimov (1920-1992) was a prolific writer and popularizer of science fiction, author of some 500 works, although his best known are I, robot, Foundation Y The bicentennial man. But he not only wrote works of science fiction, also of biology, astronomy, religion or mathematics.
Asimov is one of the most influential science fiction writers in both other writers and scientists and technologists. Its three laws of robotics are especially known, rules that guide the behavior of robots.
So influential in the world of science and technology has Asimov been that his name has served to honor different elements and discoveries: an asteroid, a crater on Mars, a Brooklyn school, the Honda Asimo humanoid robot and four literary awards.
With these quotes from Isaac Asimov you will be able to observe the creativity he had, his incredible genius, his ideas about science and technology and numerous thoughts about different aspects of the world and life.
-Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-I firmly believe that self-education is the only kind of education there is.
-The simplest way to solve a problem is to deny its existence.
-I write for the same reason that I breathe. Cause if I didn't I would die.
-The stupidest man is the one who does not realize that he is wise.
-To be successful, planning alone is insufficient. You also have to improvise.
-The luck favors only the prepared mind.
-Never let your sense of morality get in the way of doing what is right.
-You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to be able to do more than you already can..
-Denying a fact is the easiest in the world. Many people do, but the fact remains a fact.
-Science accumulates knowledge faster than society accumulates wisdom.
-The true joy is in the knowledge and not in the knowledge.
-Writing, for me, is just thinking through my fingers.
-The secret of the successful fool is that he is not fool at all.
-In the presence of total darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.
-Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
-In life, unlike in chess, the game continues after checkmate.
-Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
-Your assumptions are windows on the world. Clean them from time to time, or the light won't get in.
-Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
-If knowledge can create problems, we cannot solve them through ignorance.
-There is only one light in science and to shine it anywhere is to shine it in all places.
-I will believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous it is, only if there is evidence of it.
-The true delight is in discovering more than knowing.
-If my doctor told me that I have only 6 minutes to live, I would not brood. I would type a little faster.
-Life is nice. Death is peaceful. It is the transition that is problematic.
-You cannot make a sensible decision without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be..
-People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
-I don't believe in my own immortality; the only way i hope to have any of it is through my books.
-Victories over ingrained patterns of thinking are not won in a day or a year.
-There is no discovery in science, however revolutionary, that does not originate from what happened before.
-There are no happy endings to the story, only crisis points that pass.
-There are no nations. There is only humanity. And if we do not understand it soon, there will be no nations because there will be no humanity.
-How harmful is overspecialization. Cuts knowledge by a million points and leaves it bleeding.
-The wilder and more ridiculous something is, the stronger and more solid its evidence has to be.
-Past glories are a bad diet.
-People believe that education is something that can end.
-The problems of modern life come from being divorced from nature.
-The saddest aspect of life right now is that science reaches knowledge faster than society reaches wisdom.
-People who think they know everything are a great nuisance to those of us who know everything..
-Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.
-No problem is insoluble in all imaginable circumstances.
-I don't believe in the afterlife, so I don't have to spend my entire life fearing hell or heaven.
-Creationists make a theory sound like something you dream of after drinking all night.
-I am not afraid of computers. I fear the lack of them.
-Having good intentions is a bad defense.
-You are solely responsible for your own wishes.
-First of all, let's finish with Socrates, because I am already fed up with that invention that knowing nothing is a sign of wisdom.
-Never think that you are not good enough. A man should never think that.
-Whoever gets used to worrying about the needs of machines, becomes insensitive about the needs of men.
-Read correctly, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever built..
-Society calms down much more easily than conscience itself.
-Gratitude is best and most effective when it doesn't evaporate into empty sentences..
-Nothing has to be true, but everything has to seem true.
-Humanity has the stars in the future, and that future is very important to lose itself under the weight of youthful folly and ignorant superstition..
-I am not a fast reader. I am a quick connoisseur.
-It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties fade when faced with courage.
-Any fool can notice a crisis when it comes. The real service for the state is to detect it in its embryonic state.
-It takes more than capital to start a business. You need the PID degree to get out of trouble: publicity, initiative and dynamism.
-There is nothing terrifying in an eternal dreamless dream. Surely it is better than eternal torment in hell and eternal boredom in heaven.
-The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that announces new discoveries, is not "eureka" it is "that's fun.".
-There is no pleasure like the absence of pain, immediately after the pain.
-Insulting someone we call him a beast. For deliberate cruelty, "human" should be the greatest insult.
-Machines don't solve problems with greater insight than men, just faster.
-I doubt that the computer will ever match the intuition and creative capacity of outstanding human talent..
-An incompetent traitor is no danger. Rather, it is the capable men who should be watched..
-Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and while problems and catastrophes may be unavoidable, the solutions are not..
-Any planet is "Earth" for those who live on it.
-The solar system is made up of Jupiter and debris.
-There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and it has always existed.
-I have been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt that it was intellectually irresistible to say that one was religious, because it assumed the knowledge that one did not have..
-I do not have the evidence to prove that God does not exist, but I am so suspicious that He does not exist that I do not want to waste my time.
-Somehow it was better to say that I was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I am a creature of emotion and reason. Emotionally I am an atheist.
-Tell me why the stars shine… tell me what makes the skies so blue. And I'll tell you why I love you.
-We know the basic rules that govern subatomic particles and their interrelationships ... they are clearly described by quantum theory.
-I think that right and wrong are confusing concepts.
-People think that "right" and "wrong" are absolute truths, that everything that is not perfect and completely correct is totally wrong..
-I received the foundations of my education in school, but that was not enough. My true education came from the public library.
-Only a lie that is not ashamed of itself could succeed.
-Compliments are useful when dealing with young people.
-They don't want the truth, they want their traditions.
-Tell the people the Martians are landing, and they will scream and run.
-Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and runs smoothly, it is completely honest..
-When I read about the way library holdings are being clipped and clipped, I can only think that American society has found a new way to destroy itself..
-Dalton's records, carefully preserved through a century, were destroyed during World War II in the bombing of Manchester. Not only is life killed in war.
-You must keep submitting your work; you should never allow a manuscript to sit in a drawer. You must submit that job over and over again, while working on another. If you have talent you will receive a certain degree of success, but only if you persist.
-I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects of faith are outside reason and are not part of rationalism, so you do not have to spend your time attacking or defending.
-For a poor child whose family couldn't afford books, the library represented an open door for wonder and achievement, and I will never be grateful enough that I had the courage to walk through that door and make the most of it..
-Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources in endless fights ... there must be a sense of globalism in which the world comes together to solve the real problems faced by all.
-When a religious denounced me in excessive terms, I sent him a letter that said: “I am sure that you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pain and torture… that your deity can devise… Isn't it that enough for you? Do you have to give me derogatory names? "
-They ask me, don't you believe in flying saucers? Don't you believe in telepathy?… In life after death. I do not answer. No, no, no, no, and again no.
-Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is depleting, forests are being cut down, that the greenhouse effect will raise sea levels, that overpopulation is drowning? ... and they yawn and lie back to take a comfortable nap.
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