Isaac Asimov

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

Isaac Asimov

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

We’re forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can’t be understood.

Isaac Asimov

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind’s habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

Isaac Asimov

You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.

Isaac Asimov

You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

Isaac Asimov

A circle has no end.

Isaac Asimov

A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

Isaac Asimov

A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve.

Isaac Asimov

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is – or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

Isaac Asimov