Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!
Down—down—the results can be followed; and all the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy, until Hari Seldon, and very few men thereaf...
Encyclopedias don’t win wars.
Even Magnifico was put to work on the calculating machine for routine computations, a type of work, which, once explained, was a source of great amusement to him and at which he was surprisingly profi...
Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequenc...
For the first time the specific and express thought came to him. And though he pushed it away in horror, he knew that, having once come, it would return. The thought was simply this: That he would rui...
Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.
He was going mad and knew it, andsomewhere deep inside a bit of sanity was screaming, struggling to fight offthe hopeless flood of black terror. It was very horrible to go mad and knowthat you were go...
How could any number of people—all together—know enough? It reminded Seldon of a puzzle that had been presented to him when he was young: Can you have a relatively small piece of platinum, with handho...
I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.
It isn’t just you. It’s the whole Galaxy. Pirenne heard Lord Dorwin’s idea of scientific research. Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject—writt...
It lacks glamour?- It lacks mob emotion-appeal.- Same thing.
It's just that old people always think young people haven't really learned about love; and young people think that old people have forgotten about love; and, you know, they're both wrong.
I’m being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.
I’ve seen many people with status, but I’m still looking for a happy one. Status won’t sit still under you; you have to continually fight to keep from sinking.
Kill us in the clear light on the Moon, where the sky is black and soft, where the stars shine brightly, where the cleanliness and purity of vacuum make all things sharp.- Not in this low-clinging, fu...
La forma más fácil de solucionar un problema es negar su existencia.
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