Quotes from Isaac Asimov

different if, somehow, not so much better, than the rougher food of the Elders – disparaging Rossemian weather, referring with an attempt at casualness to the intricacies of space travel.

When you think of human history, you think of the occasional human being whose minority view may be condemned by society but who wins out in the end and changes the world. What chance is there on Gaia for the great rebels of history?

ÖÄŸrenmek demek ufkunuzu geniÅŸletmek, daha fazla ÅŸey yaÅŸamak ve kendinize farkl? yaÅŸam alanlar? yaratmak demektir. ... Bilgi yaln?zca güç deÄŸildir; bilgi mutluluktur ve bilginin size öÄŸretilmesi ise entelektüel manada, sevilmekle eÅŸdeÄŸerdir.

They brought the plan through, because they loved the greater Plan.

Can entropy ever be reversed? We both know entropy can't be reversed. You can't turn smoke and ash back into a tree. Do you have trees on your world? The sound of the Galactic AC startled them into silence. Its voice came thin and beautiful out of the small AC-contact on the desk. It said: THERE IS INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER

La última vez que salí al aire libre fue hace tres años.

It is one thing to be democratic, quite another to be inconvenienced.

the intruder was an obviously mature thirty, at least—quite elderly, in fact.)

Para un profesor, lo lógico es que el escondrijo elegido sea una Universidad

Lo so. Lo sappiamo tutti. Forse la lezione del passato potrà insegnarci cosa evitare. E poi, la tirannia che c'è adesso è reale. Quella che potrebbe esistere in futuro è solamente potenziale. Non possiamo sottrarci sempre ai cambiamenti pensando che la situazione potrebbe cambiare in peggio, altrimenti addio speranza di riuscire un giorno a sconfiggere l'ingiustizia.

most of the iron that has found its way into the Earth's core and its surface rocks - and into our own blood, as well - once existed in white dwarfs that exploded

Perché tante persone passavano la loro vita senza cercare la risposta a tutte le domande che c'erano... anzi, senza nemmeno porsi le domande? si chiese Seldon. Nella vita, esisteva qualcosa di più eccitante della ricerca delle risposte?

The same pattern of the creation by supernatural gods of an ordered Universe out of Chaos occurs over and over again in various mythologies, and in a sense, that is the only story possible.

And of those who were aware, there were dime classes. First, there were the many who knew little and were very confident.

Y?llar önce Isaac bir mektubunda Lili adl? sinema filmini izlediÄŸini ve hayali bale sahnesinde aÄŸlad???n? yazm??t?: Beni niye aÄŸlatt???n? biliyorum. Bu, ayn? hayat gibi, insanlar birer birer giderler ve sen onlar? uÄŸurlars?n, ta ki bir gün s?ra sana gelene ve baÅŸkalar? seni uÄŸurlayana kadar. San?r?m burada önemli olan Carpe Diem - günü yakalamak - sonra geçip gitmesine izin vermektir

they are trained from birth to accept authority.

It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

Trantorians, poor specimens that they are, know nothing about open air, free water, and the true balance of nature.

His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before. That is, not in real life. He had seen it many times on the hyper- video, and occasionally in tremendous three- dimensional newscasts covering an Imperial Coronation or the opening of a Galactic Council. Even though he had lived all his life on the world of Synnax, which circled a star at the edges of the Blue Drift, he was not cut off from civilization, you see. At that time, no place in the Galaxy was.

Undoubtedly his greatest contributions were in the field of psychohistory. Seldon found the field little more than a set of vague axioms; he left it a profound statistical science.… … The best existing authority we have for the details of his life is the biography

how much is 2+2? Suppose Joseph says: 2+2 = purple, while Maxwell says: 2+2 = 17. Both are wrong but isn't it fair to say that Joseph is wronger than Maxwell? Suppose you said: 2+2=an integer. You'd be right, wouldn't you? Or suppose you said: 2+2=an even integer. You'd be rather righter. Or suppose you said:2+2=3.999. Wouldn't you be nearly right?

In fact, no one noticed that the Empire had lost its drive, its forward look, because Trantor gleamed in shining metal.

Al parecer, cree más en la curación que en el castigo de los criminales. Considero esto muy significativo.