And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

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.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.