2nd January: Isaac Asimov

Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was born on January 2nd 1920. He said:

1. People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
2. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
3. Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
4. The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
5. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
6. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
7. Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
8. If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
9. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
10. From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.