Isaac Asimov Quotes About Curiosity

Quotes about: Curiosity

• Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

  Isaac Asimov

  Mean, Thinking, Curiosity

• The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

  Isaac Asimov

  Understanding, Curiosity, Mind

• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fall, Gentleman, Curiosity

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

• Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.

  Isaac Asimov

  Animal, Hands, Differences

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.71, Spectra

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