Isaac Asimov Quotes

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

Because human nature evolved in an era before collective learning accelerated, we are all fitted to living in a world that does not change much after our formative years.

I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

Modernity is not a problem to be overcome but a challenge to be met.

People all over the world are today questioning matters that only a few generations ago were generally seen as "just the way things are.”

Human society can only adapt to social change at a certain rate.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed.

Man is by nature a conservative animal and government is his instrument for preventing rapid change.

Immigrants are changed by the greater society. Immigrants change the greater society.

A society based on … reality must reconcile in its life, the categories of permanence and change.