Isaac Asimov Quotes

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.