Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. Isaac Asimov More Quotes by Isaac Asimov More Quotes From Isaac Asimov He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. Isaac Asimov reading men book I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But, Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' Mozart replied, 'I never asked how. Isaac Asimov symphony advice men I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library. Isaac Asimov reading book school The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. Isaac Asimov intuition twenties mind It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. Isaac Asimov grandchildren animal thinking To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable. Isaac Asimov stars fields people The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did. Isaac Asimov revolutionary might facts I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. Isaac Asimov taught writing book How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo? Isaac Asimov men war looks Economics is on the side of humanity now. Isaac Asimov economics humanity sides Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them. Isaac Asimov cutting humanity tree True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down." Isaac Asimov learning education art There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past. Isaac Asimov relics giants past The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have. Isaac Asimov block essentials impossible Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice. Isaac Asimov juice curves long Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. Isaac Asimov futility-of-life marriage dark Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. Isaac Asimov conscience The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more. Isaac Asimov variation errors law Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. Isaac Asimov atheist science religion It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking. Isaac Asimov business change mean
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