Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn’t say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.
Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.
Oh, hell! I can’t sleep! Neither can I! But I might as well try—as a matter of principle. Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that—a matter of principle, unattainable in practice.
On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about....
Pyscho-history dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser science...
Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
The fall of Trantor, said Seldon, cannot be stopped by any conceivable effort. It can be hastened easily, however. The tale of my interrupted trial will spread through the Galaxy. Frustration of my pl...
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in...
You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.
Your phraseology is obscure, but I think I understand.
People live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is.
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
After all, all devices have their dangers. The discovery of speech introduced communication—and lies. The discovery of fire introduced cooking—and arson. The discovery of the compass improved navigati...
After all, the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.
All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.
An individual life is one thread in the tapestry and what is one thread compared to the whole?
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer--by demonstration--wo...
Does everyone just believe what he wants to?As long as possible. Sometimes longer.What about you?You mean, am I human? Certainly. I don't believe I'm really old. I believe I'm quite attractive. I beli...
Earthmen may even rule at Trantor for a generation, but their children will become Trantorians, and in their turn will look down upon the remnant on Earth.
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