Isaac Asimov: 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.
Isaac Asimov: It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. 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.
Isaac Asimov: Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov: To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.
Isaac Asimov: Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
Isaac Asimov: I don't have a modest bone in my body.
Isaac Asimov: There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov: When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, 'No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys.
Isaac Asimov: Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov: I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Isaac Asimov: Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov: All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov: I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov: If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov: Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Isaac Asimov: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ..
Isaac Asimov: Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have ever published books in every Dewey Decimal library category apart from Philosophy.
Isaac Asimov disliked travel of any kind, especially air travel.
Isaac Asimov was an atheist though his cultural background was Jewish.
Isaac Asimov liked to work in windowless rooms and enjoyed confined spaces.
He attended Columbia University a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
When he was five years old, he taught himself how to read.
He is considered one of the Big Three of science fiction, along with Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein.
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