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10 Times Isaac Asimov had Life and Death all Summed up

By January 2, 2016January 2nd, 2018Authors, Quotations

Isaac Asimov was an American author, born in the Russian SFSR on 2nd January 1920. The author is best known for his works of science fiction and popular science books. A prolific author he wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books are published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

All this writing makes for some great quotes, and as you might expect Asimov knew a thing or two about life, and death too. Here are a few pearls of wisdom for the great author.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

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.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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

As true now as they ever were. Thanks for all the words, Isaac!

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  • Doll says:

    Highly disagree with his heaven comment. It is utterly downright wrong. His passing explains it.

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