Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood.
Isaac Asimov was born 2 January 1920, and died 6 April 1992.
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