Isaac Asimov Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Peace, Military

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

• Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Nursing, Moved On

• Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sports, Robots, Crowds

• When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Ideas, Elderly

  Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1977.

• It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fiction, Emotion, Study

  Isaac Asimov (1983). “The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels”, Doubleday Books

• You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

  Isaac Asimov

  Future, Needs, Way

• In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspiration, Technology, Men

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

• Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.

  Isaac Asimov

  Communication, Men, Mind

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

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