Isaac Asimov Quotes

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the angels sing.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy, until Hari Seldon, and very few men thereafter, could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can’t be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is – or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

A knotty puzzle may hold up a scientist for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.