![Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22785p118.jpg)
Quotes by Isaac Asimov
21 quotes by Isaac Asimov
![Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22785p118.jpg)
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.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about opinion, hell, boredom, life
![I write for the same reason I breathe because if I...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22778p77.jpg)
I write for the same reason I breathe because if I didn't, I would die.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about opinion, reason, death
![Life is pleasant, death is peaceful, it's the transition...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22779p30.jpg)
Life is pleasant, death is peaceful, it's the transition that's troublesome.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about nature, death, life
![People who think they know everything are a great...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22780p190.jpg)
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about science, people
![Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22781p190.jpg)
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about science, disaster, writers, fiction, problems
![The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22782p40.jpg)
![Those people who think they know everything are a great...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22783p105.jpg)
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about nation, people
![To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22784p242.jpg)
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about ignorance, god
![Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22786p124.jpg)
![It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22787p114.jpg)
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about change, society
![Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22788p82.jpg)
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about moral, common sense, sense, rightness
![No sensible decision can be made any longer without...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22789p61.jpg)
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about opinion, world
![I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22790p97.jpg)
![Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22791p123.jpg)
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about future, burden, celebrity, stars, humanity
![If knowledge can create problems, it is not through...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22792p120.jpg)
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about knowledge, ignorance, problems
![I am not a speed reader, I am a speed understander.](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22793p190.jpg)
![I don't believe in personal immortality, the only way I...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22794p101.jpg)
I don't believe in personal immortality, the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about immortality, books, things
![Creationists make it sound as though a theory is...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22795p217.jpg)
Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about creation, night, being
![And above all things, never think that you're not good...](/imgupl/quote-photostock/sm-22796p243.jpg)
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself.
Quote by Isaac Asimov about things, good, good luck