Quotes by Isaac Asimov

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

The Bible, properly read, is the most potent force for atheism yet invented.

Taxation loses effectiveness at both extremes. Overcomplicate it and people cannot understand it and pay for an overgrown and expensive tax organization. Oversimplify it and people consider it unfair and grow bitterly resentful. The simplest is a poll tax, in which every individual pays the same amount, but the unfairness of treating rich and poor alike in this way is too evident to overlook.

It is possible that some among us have interpreted some relationships to indicate that the junta may be an unstable form of government, but there are other relationships that may easily be interpreted to show it is stable.

People believe in supernatural influences.~ They always have.

How would they ever learn enough to blame us? The natural target for the people's resentment will be the government--the Emperor's advisers. They will never look beyond that.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.