Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) was an author of science fiction and promoter of popular science who wrote a number of books about a wide variety of subjects, including history, Shakespeare, and the Bible.

• “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

—Isaac Asimov

• “Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”

—Isaac Asimov

• “Now that the creationists are deprived of their chance of burning people at the stake, their best argument is gone.”

—Isaac Asimov, "Life and Time," 1979