Quotes from Isaac Asimov

Când poate È™ti un om dac? este sau nu o marionet?? Cum poate afla un om c? nu este o marionet??

The infinity of potential knowledge may be infinitely greater than the infinity of my actual knowledge.

A little globe of pulsing color grew in rhythmic spurts and burst in midair into formless gouts that swirled high and came down as curving streamers in interlacing patterns. They coalesced into little spheres, no two alike in color—and Bayta began discovering things.

Lo aún peor es que el Universo no morirá con nosotros. De manera firme e inmortal continúa hacia sus cambios cíclicos, añadiendo a la injuria de la muerte el insulto de la indiferencia.

He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.

Trantor?' 'That's right. What was once the Empire is bare bones today, but something must still be at the centre. They've got the records there, Ebling. You may learn more of mathematical psychology; perhaps enough to be able to interpret the clown's mind. He will go with you, of course.

What is an Earthman?" "An inferior sort of human that ought not to be allowed on Solaria because he breeds disease, master.

the mere act of not being a traitor is also a long way from agreeing to be an active helper.

Throughout you have invariably relied on authority or on the past—never on yourselves." His fists balled spasmodically. "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.

it's a blackmail that would not work on any other planet in the Galaxy. Their own sick social system gave us this weapon and I have no compunction about using it.

Es sorprendente que una colección de declaraciones que son individualmente ciertas puedan usarse, combinadas, para conseguir un resultado que no se hubiera logrado con la verdad.

În lipsa unui computer, o civilizaÅ£ie puternic? poate deveni periculoas?, ÅŸi de aceea e mai bine s? fie distrus?.

You must find that Second Foundation.

But, tell me, how would you get us out of our present mess?" "Your present mess. I had nothing to do with it." "Consider the question suitably modified.

Ez a maga dolga, nem? Mivégre tettem meg magát akkor köznevelésügyi és propagandaminiszternek? – Nyilván, hogy idÅ' elÅ'tt nyomorultul a sírba tegyen, amennyi segítséget kapok magától.

Violence," came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent. But I certainly don't intend to lay down the welcome mat and brush off the best furniture for their use.

It's almost not necessary for us to do good. It's only necessary for us to stop doing evil, for goodness sake.

In three centuries the Foundation had grown from a private project of a small group of scientists to a tentacular trade empire sprawling deep into the Galaxy and half a year had flung it from its heights to the status of another conquered province.

Es la risita adquisitiva; es la risita del hombre que acaba de obtener algo que deseaba ardientemente a expensas de algún otro. Relatos de los Viudas Negras (Kindle Location 215). LeLibros. Kindle Edition.

retold as a heroic and masterly reversal of a lost situation.

But murder applies specifically to human beings. One does not murder an animal, for instance.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates.

Hackett's Equation.

That's not the proof I want.' 'You'll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.