Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past an...
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
I shall not be alive a half decade hence, said Seldon, and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we...
The stars, like dust, encircle meIn living mists of light;And all of space I seem to seeIn one vast burst of sight
All right, Schwartz, tackle my mind now. Go as deep as you want. I was born on Baronn in the Sirius Sector. I lived my life in an atmosphere of anti-Terrestrialism in the formative years, so I can't h...
There are many people, many worlds who believe in supernaturalism in one form or another... religion, if you like the word better. We may disagree with them in one way or another, but we are as likely...
Feet, for tens of thousands of years, had clogged and shuffled in the mud – and held down the minds which, for an equal time, had been fit for the companionship of the stars.
The Imperial forces must keep their hands off, but they find that they can do much even so. Each sector is encouraged to be suspicious of its neighbors. Within each sector, economic and social classes...
What would you consider a good job? Answered as follows:A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money.When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be g...
Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you wish express a culture that combines the best of the two on an equal but parallel basis.
Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child
He’s but a windlet that blows the dust about my ankles. There is another that I flee, and he is a storm that sweeps the worlds aside and throws them plunging at each other.
The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than oth...
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience
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