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There is nothing straight about you; no motive that hasn’t another behind it; no statement that hasn’t three meanings.

Complexity, Motivation, Ambiguity, Truth, Perception, Analysis

There is nothing straight about you; no motive that hasn’t

There is nothing straight about you; no motive that hasn’t

There is nothing straight about you; no motive that hasn’t

Isaac Asimov’s Quotes On Topics

More Isaac Asimov Quotes

“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.”

Science Fiction, Salvation Essence, Philosophy, Critics, Stories, Future

“We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.”

Computers Necessity, Technology Future, Digital Reliance, Innovation, Tools, Progress

“No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

Strict Discipline, Employment Standards, Error Consequences, Mistakes, Discipline, Standards

“Anything could be found in figures if the search were long enough and hard enough and if the proper pieces of information were ignored or overlooked.”

Statistical Manipulation, Information Gaps, Figures, Search, Data, Analysis

“The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.”

Urban Planning, Scientific Control, Routine Living, Efficiency, City, Order

“The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.”

Literacy, History, Education, Media, Knowledge, Society

“To Mankind And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won after all.”

Human Hope, Fighting Folly, Optimistic Future, Mankind, Folly, Hope

“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.”

Intuition, Mind, Answer, Insight, Data, Perception

“Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.”

Scientific Truth, Universal Process, Knowledge Exploration, Science, Truth, Universe

“For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?”

Existence, Eternity, Philosophy, Consciousness, Life, End

“Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line – even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.”

Speech Communication, Expression Gesture, Language, Understanding, Interaction, Nuance

“Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.”

Future Predictions, Fiction Reality, Science, Fiction, Tomorrow, Fact

“Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.”

Life, Journey, Perspective, Humor, Happiness, Future

“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”

Happiness, Contentment, Self, Present, Life, Acceptance

“One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.”

Environmental Shift, Human Adaptation, Nature Withdrawal, Environment, Nature, Humanity

“Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.”

Custom, Nature, Change, Society, Appearance, Perception

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

Independent Learning, True Education, Knowledge Pursuit, Education, Learning, Knowledge

“There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.”

Art Science, Creativity Logic, Balance, Understanding, Connection, Expression

“With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces. Individuals will know much of exceedingly tiny facets of what there is to know.”

Social Collapse, Fragmented Knowledge, Scientific Disintegration, Science, Society, Knowledge

“For the first time the specific and express thought came to him. And though he pushed it away in horror, he knew that, having once come, it would return. The thought was simply this: That he would ruin Eternity, if he had to. The worst of it was that he knew he had the power to do it.”

Eternity, Power, Decision, Fear, Control, Fate