The Library was outmoded and archaic—it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time—but that was all to the good. Pelorat always rubbed his hands with excitement when he thought of an old and outmoded Libra...
Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.
Presumably, such is the folly of human beings, the prospects of intellectual suicide might not stop them from indulging their hatred,
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.
Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.
Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.
La forma más fácil de solucionar un problema es negar su existencia.
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...
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.
In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.
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...
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.
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...
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...
Encyclopedias don’t win wars.
Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!
Do you know what it is to play a part? To split your personality deliberately for twenty-four hours a day? Even when with friends? Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently? To be a...
Consider the question suitably modified.
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
People live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is.