Quotes from Isaac Asimov

Because of the invariable growth of the counteracting force known as Regionalism, or Nationalism, the Spiritual Power cannot prevail.

That's why I must be mayor and high priest. I'm the only man who knows how to fight the crisis." Jael swallowed dryly. "How? What are you going to do?" "Nothing." Jael smiled uncertainly. "Really! All of that!" But Mallow's answer was incisive. "When I'm boss of this Foundation, I'm going to do nothing. One hundred percent of nothing, and that is the secret of this crisis.

Los postulados están establecidos por la suposición y reforzados por la fe. Nada en el Universo puede conmoverlos.

Invariablemente, siempre han puesto su fe en las autoridades o en el pasado, nunca en ustedes mismos.

A good Technician was rarely wrong. A top Technician was never wrong.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.' Character who said it in novel: Salvor Hardin

the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, green with trees, rainbowed with flowers.

No doubt the news had spread that a Technician was coming through.

You're what they call a man of peace, aren't you?" "I suppose I am. At least, I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end.

Globes of energy millions of miles across! Worlds with three billion humans on them! Infinite emptiness! Sorry, Powell, but I don't believe it. I'll puzzle this thing out myself. Good-bye.

Mantener la disciplina en circunstancias ideales no tiene ningún mérito.

Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject—written by men who were dead for centuries.

Assassination isn't the way out, Devers. I once tried it, under provocation, when I was twenty – but it solved nothing. I removed a villain from Siwenna, but not the Imperial yoke; and it was the Imperial yoke and not the villain that mattered.

la política de apaciguamiento

He was detecting what we—he and I—knew he would detect—that we were not our own masters. And I didn't want to know!

We consider the greatest end of science is the classification of past data. It is important, but is there no further work to be done?

the fact that Jander was Fastolfe's own creation does not give him the right to destroy it.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

For a full day he had checked and rechecked equations and relationships in a rattling uncertainty, mixed with growing excitement and a bitter gratitude that he had been taught at least elementary psychomathematics.

We are looking for extraterrestrial civilization that disposes of enough energy of a sufficiently sophisticated kind to be detectable over interstellar distances

That old?" The old man sighed. "History has been crowded since.

I tell you I know the type of people that become Medievalists. They're soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.

It is odd that, though no one who has never studied chess would dream he could beat a Grand Master, so many strict amateurs with little or no scientific training are convinced they can point out the 'obvious' flaws in Einstein's theories.

No man of real competence could have avoided a dash of uncertainty at a job like that.