Isaac Asimov Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

  "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

• The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the confidence in tomorrow’s love is also part of today’s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die - I almost believe, rationalist though I am - that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.

  Isaac Asimov

  Memories, Believe, Love Is

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

• Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fiction, Today, Facts

• 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

  Change, Business, Mean

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Essence, Fiction Stories

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

• Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.

  Isaac Asimov

  Grateful, Thinking, Humanity

• 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).

• I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'

  Isaac Asimov

  Rain, Love You, Thinking

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.426, Bantam

• There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, May, Today

  "The 'Threat' Of Creationism" by Isaac Asimov, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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