Isaac Asimov Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, Congratulations, Writing

• They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

  Isaac Asimov

  Eye, Past, Would Be

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “The far ends of time and earth”

• The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Forever, World

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.87, Bantam

• It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Reform, Research

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

• Past glories are poor feeding.

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Glory, Poor

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

• 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

  Past, Giants, Relics

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Second foundation”, Del Rey

• At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Odd, Unpredictable

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.10, Spectra

• On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Past, Moon

• It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Past, Continuing On

  1978 'My Own View', in R Holdstock (ed) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978).

• There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Past, Desire

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