Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.
Isaac Asimov
Life, Sea, Ocean, Evolution, Nature, Biology
Isaac Asimov’s Quotes On Topics
Evolving Mechanism | Child Learning | Divine Imagination | Patience | Continuous Learning | Loss | Aimless Actions | Supernatural | Stagnation | Friendship | True Education | Appearance | Wrong | Lifestyle | Chaos | Confidence Projection | Rationality | Weakness | Solutions | Moderation | More
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
“Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.” Isaac Asimov
Humble Inquiry, Research Methodology, Knowledge Quest, Experimentation, Nature, Science
Isaac Asimov Humble Inquiry, Research Methodology, Knowledge Quest, Experimentation, Nature, Science“Saying something is ‘too bad’ is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It’s a lot worse than ‘too bad.’ It’s against everything decent and natural.” Isaac Asimov
Decency Values, Social Accountability, Disapproval, Indifference, Criticism, Action
Isaac Asimov Decency Values, Social Accountability, Disapproval, Indifference, Criticism, Action“Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quickstand and beating it with a stick.” Isaac Asimov
Spiritual Struggle, Challenge, Mental Health, Persistence, Resistance, Fight
Isaac Asimov Spiritual Struggle, Challenge, Mental Health, Persistence, Resistance, Fight“Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.” Isaac Asimov
Disaster, Fear, Humanity, Crisis, Future, Hope
Isaac Asimov Disaster, Fear, Humanity, Crisis, Future, Hope“Hardin, as he sat at the foot of the table, speculated idly as to just what it was that made physical scientists such poor administrators. It might be merely that they were too used to inflexible fact and far too unused to pliable people.” Isaac Asimov
Science, Administration, Management, Leadership, Fact, People
Isaac Asimov Science, Administration, Management, Leadership, Fact, People“The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.” Isaac Asimov
Science, History, Discovery, Insight, Innovation, Revolution
Isaac Asimov Science, History, Discovery, Insight, Innovation, Revolution“Come, captain, we had no leadership worthy of the name then, and we faced the cleverest opponent, the heaviest armor, the strongest force of all. Yet we won by the inevitability of history.” Isaac Asimov
Leadership, History, War, Strength, Victory, Strategy
Isaac Asimov Leadership, History, War, Strength, Victory, Strategy“The spell of power never quite releases its hold.” Isaac Asimov
Power Spell, Control Influence, Authority, Ambition, Legacy, Resilience
Isaac Asimov Power Spell, Control Influence, Authority, Ambition, Legacy, Resilience“They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.” Isaac Asimov
Truth, Robots, Knowledge, Recognition, Master, Power
Isaac Asimov Truth, Robots, Knowledge, Recognition, Master, Power“This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.” Isaac Asimov
Chess Origin, Wisdom Strategy, History, Game, Culture, Philosophy
Isaac Asimov Chess Origin, Wisdom Strategy, History, Game, Culture, Philosophy“It’s really disheartening, the universal stupidity. I think that I wouldn’t grieve at mankind’s suicide through sheer evilness of heart, or through mere recklessness. There’s something so damned undignified at going to destruction through sheer thickheaded stupidity. What’s the use of being men if that’s how you have to die.” Isaac Asimov
Universal Stupidity, Reckless Humanity, Dignified Destruction, Humanity, Stupidity, Evilness
Isaac Asimov Universal Stupidity, Reckless Humanity, Dignified Destruction, Humanity, Stupidity, Evilness“It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.” Isaac Asimov
Writing, Imagination, Influence, Youth, Creation, Inspiration
Isaac Asimov Writing, Imagination, Influence, Youth, Creation, Inspiration“They don’t want equal time – they want all the time there is.” Isaac Asimov
Equality, Time, Desire, Power, Control, Ambition
Isaac Asimov Equality, Time, Desire, Power, Control, Ambition“There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.” Isaac Asimov
Scientific Progress, Knowledge Evolution, Innovation History, Learning, Discovery, Growth
Isaac Asimov Scientific Progress, Knowledge Evolution, Innovation History, Learning, Discovery, Growth“Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.” Isaac Asimov
Change, Fear, Reeducation, Reluctance, Transformation, Growth
Isaac Asimov Change, Fear, Reeducation, Reluctance, Transformation, Growth“From the radiating point of Siwenna, the forces of the Empire reached out cautiously into the black unknown of the Periphery. Giant ships passed the vast distances that separated the vagrant stars at the Galaxy’s rim, and felt their way around the outermost edge of Foundation influence.” Isaac Asimov
Empire, Space, Exploration, Galaxy, Periphery, Foundation
Isaac Asimov Empire, Space, Exploration, Galaxy, Periphery, Foundation“A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Isaac Asimov
Robot, Ethics, Safety, Humanity, Technology, Morality
Isaac Asimov Robot, Ethics, Safety, Humanity, Technology, Morality“There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.” Isaac Asimov
Humanity, Nations, Unity, Globalism, Society, Philosophy
Isaac Asimov Humanity, Nations, Unity, Globalism, Society, Philosophy