I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
All evil is good become cancerous.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; nochange. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold wh...
All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
And just how did you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much-neglected commodity -- common sense. You see, there is a branch of...
And Elvex said, I was the man. - In Robot dreams (Short story)
It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was system, and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was industry, indecision when right was caution, an...
It lasted for a long time, I believe.A very long time. It was a great success, but even great successes come to a natural end.
Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
It amounts to a diseased attitude—a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority.
I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will.
I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.
There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl alcohol, they called "wood spirit"; ethyl alc...
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.