Isaac Asimov Quotes About Past
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The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.
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Past glories are poor feeding.
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It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
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Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
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There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.
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They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
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On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.
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There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.
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