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.
--
Science Fiction
Science
fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although
problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are
not.
--
Science Fiction
Self-education
is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
--
Self-improvement
Suppose that
we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise
enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use
it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge
remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even
if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes
before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price
of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe
that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the
choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
--
Wisdom
Isaac Asimov
1920-1992, Russian-born American Author |
