Quotes from Isaac Asimov

Staring at danger may not be pleasant – but closing your eyes will not make the danger go away, and with closed eyes you will surely be destroyed by it.

The Jump remained, and would probably remain forever, the only practical method of travelling between the stars.

fama de tortuoso.

In ogni secolo gli esseri umani hanno pensato di aver capito definitivamente l'Universo e, in ogni secolo, si è capito che avevano sbagliato. Da ciò segue che l'unica cosa che possiamo dire oggi sulle nostre conoscenze è che sono sbagliate.

it is an advantage for the murderer to be in charge of the murder investigation.

There was even a scrap of poetry he treasured which stated that a moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.

Circulation ceases first at the outer edges. It will take a while yet for the decay to reach the heart.

a las mil maravillas.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Ahora era precisamente aquel mundo frío, gris y miserable que le había parecido en un principio, pero su gente estaba llena de calor y vida. Era gente real, sólida. Solaria, Aurora, los otros mundos espaciales que había visitado o contemplado en hipervisión, parecían llenos de gente insustancial, «gaseosa». Esa era la palabra. «Gaseosos.»

It was a low point in history – but it was the end of nationalism. Earth was too small for nations and they began grouping themselves into Regions. It took quite a while. When I was born the United States of America was still a nation and not merely a part of the Northern Region. In fact, the name of the corporation is still "United States Robots—". And the change from nations to Regions, which has stabilized our economy and brought about what amounts to a Golden Age

a las bravas.

Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.

Absolute terror seemed paradoxically to have lent a lucidity to her thoughts and words that was entirely out of character.

And then, when human beings arrive, the robots can be restored to more robotic schemes of behavior.

a la deriva.

Are you truly a robot? Truly, sir, said Daneel. Pelorat's face seemed to shine with joy. He said, There are references to a robot named Daneel in the old legends. Are you named in his honor? I am that robot, said Daneel. It is not a legend. Oh no, said Pelorat. If you are that robot, you would have to be thousands of years old. Twenty thousand, said Daneel quietly.

The Foundation, as he says, was established as a scientific refuge – the means by which the science and culture of the dying Empire was to be preserved through the centuries of barbarism that have begun, to be rekindled in the end into a second Empire.

Remember, you once said, Lije, that people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don't know how to fix themselves.

How small can you make the whole gadget?" "Hyper-relays can be had micro-size Ã¢â'¬Â¦ wiring Ã¢â'¬Â¦ chips—Space, you've got a few hundred circuits there.

Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres.

Cooper del Setenta y ocho, perdido en el Veinte, llama a la Eternidad...

murió... Porque le faltaba sabiduría y le sobraba corazón.

If you told me he were Satan in masquerade, there would be a faint chance that I might believe you.