{"author":"Isaac Asimov","author_id":"Isaac+Asimov","total_quotes":196,"quotes":[{"text":"I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["communication","talkative","talkatives"],"id":34,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"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.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["psycology","science-fiction","society"],"id":1868,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["humanism","reason"],"id":2199,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["marriage"],"id":2457,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["science-fiction","society","technology"],"id":10610,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"...Changelessness is decay.'A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.'Changelessness is a change for the worse...","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["asimov","kelden-amadiro","robots","science-fiction","vasilia-aliena"],"id":12790,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["anger"],"id":12961,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["books"],"id":14776,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["space"],"id":16816,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, 'I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["asimov","humor","rebuttal","religion","zealots"],"id":20142,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":196,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}