If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than oth...
Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true
They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.
The real point of the matter is that what we call a 'wrong datum' is one which is inconsistent with all other known data. It is our only criterion for right and wrong.
Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped li...
Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You could...
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
I shall not be alive a half decade hence, said Seldon, and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we...
I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect o...
He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.
Give us but the chance and a new generation of Earthmen would grow to maturity, lacking insularity and believing wholeheartedly in the oneness of Man.
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.
Consider the question suitably modified.
Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one...
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.