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Isaac Asimov


(1920 - 1992)

science fiction author
Russian-born, U.S.A.


Quotations of Isaac Asimov

"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly and warn the people of Canada..."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992 / Canadian Atheists Newsletter, 1994)

"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"Creationists make it sound like a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ...""
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What have we to offer in exchange?
Uncertainty! Insecurity!"

(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)

"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."
(Isaac Asimov / 1920-1992)



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