Quotes from Isaac Asimov

They couldn't have dropped the bomb for all the Galaxy. If they could have, they would have been large-primate themselves in their manner of thinking, and there are worse things than merely the end of everything.

I despise envy on principle and I feel only contempt for those who fall prey to it; so I never let myself feel it, you see, unless I can call it something else.

She had shopped all on her own along the Flowered Path, fashion center of the gayest world in space.

Tenía unas páginas de poesía, que guardaba con indecible cariño, donde se podía leer que lo que una mano había hecho nunca podía deshacerlo.

The Machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

The Voice said, Even if I knew everything, I could not know that I know everything. Murray said, That sounds like a bit of Eastern philosophy - something that sounds profound precisely because it has no meaning.

An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

I planned killing Mis before he could talk. I planned it secretly—as secretly as I could—so secretly I didn't dare tell it to myself.

Enlightened self-interest' they call it.

temperatura constante de mais ou menos 21 graus

And in the center of an open cluster of ten thousand stars, whose light tore to shreds the feebly encircling darkness, there circled the huge Imperial planet Trantor.

That's another trouble with education as we now have it. People think of education as something that they can finish.

People say "It's as plain as the nose on your face." But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

In fact,' said Fara, happily, 'you all seem to forget that Seldon was the greatest psychologist of our time and that he was the founder of our Foundation. It seems reasonable to assume that he used his science to determine the probable course of the history of the immediate future. If he did, as seems likely, I repeat, he would certainly have managed to find a way to warn us of danger and, perhaps, to point out a solution. The Encyclopedia was very dear to his heart, you know.

Tales without end are told of these massive, lonely figures who bore half-seriously, half-mockingly a motto adopted from one of Salvor Hardin's epigrams, "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!

Solo il mio sistema emotivo è stato condizionato, il cervello è come prima. Sono portato a pensare in una determinata direzione, non costretto. E ci sono alcune cose che posso vedere molto più chiaramente, perché mi sono liberato dei vincoli emotivi.

no uniformity, but the primitive diversity of a strong mind, untouched and unmolded except by the manifold disorganizations of the universe.

más vale tener planteados problemas sin solucionar que no plantearse problemas.

I grew up haphazard, wounded and tortured in mind, full of self-pity and hatred of others.

The primary reason for the development of trade and traders was to introduce and spread this religion more quickly, and to insure that the introduction of new techniques and a new economy would be subject to our thorough and intimate control.

Hardin shook himself out of an abstracted reverie. 'No, milord, can't say I am. I'm a psychologist by original intention and a politician by final decision.' 'Ah! No doubt intewesting studies. I, myself, y'know

died in the slave mines eighty years ago with your husband's great-grandfather, because he lacked wisdom and didn't lack heart—

the question of ownership of the means of production becomes obsolescent. Whoever owned them (if such a phrase has meaning), a man, a group, a nation, or all mankind, they could be utilized only as the Machines directed.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.