Isaac Asimov Quotes

There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Why demand explanations? ... Explanations will hazard an encroachment upon the prerogative.

Well you don’t have to do it.

If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an idea of the world in which they live. But we alone question our surroundings.