Quotes from Isaac Asimov

There must be a crisis, but I don't know how to make one. The progressive forces on the Foundation are oppressed fearfully. You Traders may have the will, but you are hunted and disunited. If all the forces of good will in and out of the Foundation could combine

He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true.

caída de un imperio es un suceso colosal, y no se combate con facilidad. Viene dictada por el crecimiento de la burocracia, la asfixia de la iniciativa, la esclerosis del sistema de castas, la condena de toda curiosidad...

Akl? ba??nda insan, haddini bilen insand?r

la caída de un imperio es un suceso colosal, y no se combate con facilidad. Viene dictada por el crecimiento de la burocracia, la asfixia de la iniciativa, la esclerosis del sistema de castas, la condena de toda curiosidad...

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica.

But as for me,' and he concluded in a whisper, so that Gaal could scarcely hear him, 'I am finished.

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica. Tengo por lo menos la esperanza de haber escrito ensayos serios sobre imperios galácticos y psicohistoria.

And so after three years of a war which was certainly the most unfought war on record, the Republic of Korell surrendered unconditionally, and Hober Mallow took his place next to Hari Seldon and Salvor Hardin in the hearts of the people of the Foundation.

the use of electrodes at skull sutures by a newly developed means which enabled contact to be made directly with the gray cells, without even the necessity of shaving a patch of skull.

La gratitud es mejor y más eficaz cuando no se evapora en frases vacías.

Dr. Fastolfe said, with obvious surprise, "Are you satisfied with life on Earth?" "We get along.

He had gained it originally by virtue of his position at the head of the Kalganian navy, and through a lamentable lack of caution on the part of the previous lord.

They're not bad fellows, Lee, when they stick to their Encyclopedia – and we'll see that that's where they stick in the future. They're hopelessly incompetent when it comes to ruling Terminus. Go away now and start things rolling. I want to be alone.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si el conocimiento puede crear problemas, no es con la ignorancia con lo que podremos resolverlo (Isaac Asimov)

Our own civilization has a dubious future, and if we can express the reason in brief it is that we find it difficult (perhaps impossible) to cooperate in solving our problems. We are too contentious a species and apparently find our local quarrels to be more important than our overall survival.

There is no Master but the Master and QT-1 is his prophet!

is fifty years now since this Foundation was established – sfifty years in which the members of the Foundation have been ignorant of what it was they were working toward. It was necessary that they be ignorant, but now the necessity is gone. 'The Encyclopedia Foundation, to begin with, is a fraud, and always has been!

Huh?" Donovan became aware of twenty pairs of mechanical eyes fixed upon him and twenty stiff-timbred voices declaiming solemnly: "There is no Master but the Master and QT-1 is his prophet!

To us, all life is a series of accidents, to be met with by improvisations. To them, all life is purposive and should be met by precalculation.

THE FOUR KINGDOMS The name given to those portions of the Province of Anacreon which broke away from the First Empire in the early years of the Foundational Era to form independent and short-lived kingdoms. The largest and most powerful of these was Anacreon itself which in area … … Undoubtedly the most interesting aspect of the history of the Four Kingdoms involves the strange society forced temporarily upon it during the administration of Salvor Hardin …

It doesn't matter who 'rules.' Petruchio and Katherina are in love and so long as love exists, 'ruler' and 'ruled' lose their meaning. Petruchio looked only for money, and got love, too. Katherina looked for nothing and got love. It is completely happy ending.

Now how I play a part, as an individual, in the foreseen course of history, I don't know. Perhaps I have no definite part, since the Plan leaves individuals to indeterminacy and free will. But I am important and they—they, you understand—may at least have calculated my probable reaction. So I distrust my impulses, my desires, my probable reactions.

CâÈ›i p?mânteni nu reacÈ›ioneaz? printr-o ur? oarb? fa?? de toÈ›i cet??enii galactici, f?r? deosebire? E o boal? aproape universal? - ur? pentru ur?. Doresc concet??enii dumneavostr? cu adev?rat egalitate, toleran?? reciproc?? Nu! Cei mai mulÈ›i nu vor decât s? se-ntoarc? roata, aducându-i pe ei deasupra.