Isaac AsimovThinkers

The Airplane is an unsporting mode of transportation. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive.

America is marked by a strain of anti-intellectualism that winds its way through our political and cultural life and is nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.

Anti-intellectualism is an ever-present thing that winds its way through American political and cultural life and is nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.

Art is related to science in this: the true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.

Atheism is not about having proof that God doesn't exist. Rather it is about so strongly suspecting that he doesn't that one need not waste one's time.

Atheism's most potent force ever conceived is the Bible itself.

A Baby is the enemy of the human race.

Belief in god is simply to surrender to ignorance and call it God.

The Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Concern is the first time you can't do it the second time.

Death is peaceful just as life is pleasant, but the transition is what is troublesome.