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“Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?”
― Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.鈥�
听听听听听听听听听听听
-I did nothing for you.鈥�
听听听听听听听听听听听
-You loved me and your love made me--human.”
― Isaac Asimov, Forward the Foundation

“the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. ”
― Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

“Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.”
― Robert Jastrow

“Since emotions are few and reasons many, the behavior or a crowd can be
more easily predicted than the behavior of one person can. And that, in turn, means that if laws are to be developed that enable the current of history to be predicted, then one must deal with large populations, the larger the better. That might itself be the First Law of Psychohistory, the key to the study of Humanics. Yet.'

R. Giskard Reventlov”
― Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire

“He de decir, si usted no lo sabe por propia experiencia, que leer un buen libro, embebido en el inter茅s de sus palabras y pensamientos, produce en algunas personas (en m铆, por ejemplo) una incre铆ble sensaci贸n de felicidad.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Estamos tan rodeados de historias sobrenaturales, de la aceptaci贸n sin problemas de lo paranormal, de la amenaza de los distintos poderes que intentan con todas sus fuerzas convencernos de la existencia de lo sobrenatural, que hasta los m谩s firmes podemos sentirnos desfallecer.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Creo que Dios preferir铆a un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace m谩s que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horribles, horribles, horribles.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Cuando se fund贸 el Estado de Israel, en 1948, todos mis amigos jud铆os estaban felices; yo fui el aguafiestas. Les advert铆: 鈥擡stamos construyendo un gueto nosotros mismos. Estaremos rodeados por decenas de millones de musulmanes que nunca perdonar谩n, nunca olvidar谩n y nunca desaparecer谩n. Estaba en lo cierto, sobre todo cuando result贸 que los 谩rabes estaban asentados en la mayor parte de los abastecimientos petrol铆feros del mundo. As铆 que las naciones del mundo, que necesitaban el petr贸leo, pensaron que era diplom谩tico ser pro-谩rabe. (Si el tema de las reservas petrol铆feras se hubiese conocido antes, estoy convencido de que Israel no se habr铆a creado.) Pero 驴no merecemos los jud铆os una patria? En realidad, creo que a ning煤n grupo humano le conviene pertenecer a una 鈥減atria鈥� en el sentido habitual de la palabra. La Tierra no deber铆a estar dividida en cientos de secciones diferentes, cada una habitada por un solo segmento autodefinido de la humanidad que considera que su propio bienestar y su propia 鈥渟eguridad nacional鈥� est谩n por encima de cualquier otra consideraci贸n. Soy partidario de la diversidad cultural y me gustar铆a que cada grupo identificable valorara su patrimonio cultural. Por ejemplo, soy un patriota de Nueva York y si viviera en Los 脕ngeles me encantar铆a reunirme con otros neoyorquinos expatriados y cantar Give My Regards to Broadway. No obstante, este tipo de sentimientos deben ser culturales y benignos. Estoy en contra de ello si cada grupo desprecia a los dem谩s y aspira a destruirlos. Estoy en contra de dar armas a cada peque帽o grupo autodefinido con las que reforzar su propio orgullo y sus prejuicios. La Tierra se enfrenta en la actualidad a problemas medioambientales que amenazan con la inminente destrucci贸n de la civilizaci贸n y con el final del planeta como un lugar habitable. La humanidad no se pude permitir desperdiciar sus recursos financieros y emocionales en peleas interminables y sin sentido entre los diversos grupos. Debe haber un sentido de lo global en el que todo el mundo se una para resolver los problemas reales a los que nos enfrentamos todos. 驴Se puede hacer esto? La pregunta equivale a: 驴puede sobrevivir la humanidad? Por tanto, no soy sionista porque no creo en las naciones y porque los sionistas lo 煤nico que hacen es crear una naci贸n m谩s para dar lugar a m谩s conflictos. Crean su naci贸n para tener 鈥渄erechos鈥�, 鈥渆xigencias鈥� y 鈥渟eguridad nacional鈥� y para sentir que deben protegerla de sus vecinos. 隆No hay naciones! S贸lo existe la humanidad. Y si no llegamos a entender esto pronto, las naciones desaparecer谩n, porque no existir谩 la humanidad.”
― Isaac Asimov

“The common thread in Asimov's robot stories is a self-fulfilling prophecy. That being afraid of science and technology leads us to acting in ways that are detrimental to ourselves and society. Or, to indvertently hand over control to people who want to misuse it, simply by our refusal to understand it.
[James Portnow, Extra Credits. Asimov Summary]”
― James Portnow Extra Credits

“Nunca, en toda mi vida, ni siquiera por un momento, me he sentido tentado por ninguna religi贸n de ning煤n tipo. El hecho es que no siento ning煤n vac铆o espiritual. Tengo mi filosof铆a de la vida, que no incluye ning煤n aspecto sobrenatural y que encuentro totalmente satisfactoria. En resumen, soy un racionalista y s贸lo creo lo que me dice la raz贸n.”
― Isaac Asimov

“En mi respuesta le dec铆a: "Avram, t煤 y yo somos jud铆os que vivimos en un pa铆s que es no jud铆o en un noventa y cinco por ciento y nos las arreglamos bastante bien. Me pregunto c贸mo nos desenvolver铆amos, Avram, si fu茅ramos gentiles y vivi茅ramos en un pa铆s con un noventa y cinco por ciento de jud铆os ortodoxos."
Memorias”
― Isaac Asimov

“Andrew thought that it was strange that humans would choose the day of coming forth from the womb as the significant thing to commemorate. He knew something of human biology, and it seemed to him that it would be much more important to focus on the moment of the actual creation of the organism, when the sperm cell entered the ovum and the process of cell division began. Surely that was the real point of origin of any person!
Certainly the new person was already alive - if not capable of independent functioning - during the nine months spent within the womb.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Positronic Man

“It was odd how that last deed caught the imagination of the world. All that Andrew had done before had not swayed them. But he had finally accepted even death to be human, and the sacrifice was too great to be rejected.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

“Los postulados est谩n establecidos por la suposici贸n y reforzados por la fe. Nada en el Universo puede conmoverlos.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Books, gentlemen, hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.

Halsted muttered, 'These days there's movies and TV.'

Manfred heard. He said, with a smile, 'I watch television also. Sometimes I will see a movie. Just because I appreciate a meal such as the one we have just had doesn't mean that I may not eat a hot dog now and then. But I don't confuse the two. No matter how splendid movies and television may seem, they are junk food for the mind, amusement for the illiterate, a bit of diversion for those who are momentarily in the mood for nothing more.”
― Isaac Asimov, Puzzles of the Black Widowers

“脦n lipsa unui computer, o civiliza牛ie puternic膬 poate deveni periculoas膬, 艧i de aceea e mai bine s膬 fie distrus膬.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Winds of Change and Other Stories

“Un encadenamiento de razonamientosv谩lidos s贸lo puede llevar a la determinaci贸n de la verdad.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“You know, it's such a beautiful day that I think I'll walk.”
― Isaac Asimov, It's Such a Beautiful Day

“I see into minds, you see', the robot continued, 'and you have no idea how complicated they are. I can鈥檛 begin to understand everything because my own mind has so little in common with them 鈥� but I try, and your novels help.”
― Isaac Asimov, Liar!

“Some of the woman peered through the layer of doctorhood. [...] 'Am I a psychologist for nothing?”
― Isaac Asimov, Liar!

“Yeah! Susie herself. That robot鈥檚 a mathematical wiz. He knows all about everything plus a bit on the side. He does triple integrals in his head and eats up tensor analysis for dessert.”
― Isaac Asimov, Liar!

“Bogert chuckled nastily, 'And I鈥檓 the new director, be it understood. I鈥檓 very aware of that; don鈥檛 think I鈥檓 not. Damn your eyes, Lanning, I鈥檓 going to give the orders about here or there will be the sweetest mess that you鈥檝e ever been in.”
― Isaac Asimov, Liar!

“He was still smiling as he closed the door behind himself, but what Herbie鈥檚 feelings were, there was no way of telling.”
― Isaac Asimov, Liar!

“Right! Not that I particularly like having a robot tell me my job, nor that I think he can do it!”
― Isaac Asimov, Liar!

“Bogert鈥檚 face was bloodless, 'He鈥檚 dead!'
'No!' Susan Calvin burst into body-racking gusts of wild laughter, 'not dead 鈥攎erely insane. I confronted him with the insoluble dilemma, and he broke down. You can scrap him now鈥攂ecause he鈥檒l never speak again.”
― Isaac Asimov, Liar!