“I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as ...” — Isaac Asimov Quote

“I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.”

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”

“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.”

“If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

“We cannot put off living until we are ready.”

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

“I am I plus my circumstances.”

“So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.”

“Before puberty, it seems like I was more or less smiling a lot. I was really outgoing and wanted to have a happy life.”