Meaning well is a poor defense,
Past glories are poor feeding.
Q. Would you repeat, Dr. Seldon, your thoughts concerning the future of Trantor?A. I have said, and I say again, that Trantor will lie in ruins within the next three centuries.Q. You do not consider y...
Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It...
The colonization of space is the only possible salvation of Earth.
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.
There is a longing for a supposedly simple and virtuous past that is almost universal among the people of a complex and vicious society.
To Mankind
You are a practical man, Elijah. You do not moon romantically over Earth's past, despite your healthy interest in it. Nor do you stubbornly embrace the City culture of Earth's present day. We felt tha...
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing.
Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.
A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
But you haven't tried. You haven't tried once. First you refused to admit that there was a menace at all! Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor! Now you've shifted it to Hari Seldo...
He supposed it was inevitable. Dip a person into one particular specialty deeply enough and long enough, and he would automatically begin to assume that specialists in all other fields were magicians,...
In memory yet green, in joy still felt,The scenes of life rise sharply into view.
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
Now we can see what makes mathematics unique. Only in mathematics is there no significant correction-only extension. Once the Greeks had developed the deductive method, they were correct in what they...
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