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Isaac Asimov — Portrait after a picture by Phillip Leonian [1] from New York World-Telegram & Sun.[2] (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Isaac Asimov

American writer and biochemist

1920–1992

26 quotes, most often on Science, Technology and Wisdom.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…’
- Science
Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers…and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn’t even ask for erasers.
- Philosophy
- Science
The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can’t get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
General sources, Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)
- Science
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
- Science
- Wisdom
I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
The Roving Mind (1983), p. 43
- Facts
- Science
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection.
The Roving Mind (1983), Ch. 25
- Art
- Science

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