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It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

It lacks glamour? - It lacks mob emotion-appeal. - Same thing.

History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.

Sizzling Saturn, we've got a lunatic robot on our hands.

The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again. Hari

A simple aspect of science may be defined as one which, through good fortune, I happen to understand.

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

You underestimate the depths to which mysticism can bury rationality, Golan.

You're a Lousy dame, lady, said Raych. I'm a Lousy dame with a quick knife, Raych, so get moving.

Since when does prejudice follow any law but its own.

No me considero como un ser de inteligencia subnormal, pero la cuestión es que su vaga conferencia no es muy reveladora.

It is the essence of a good title, in my opinion, that it means more after you have completed the story than before you started it. If that is not true, then either the title or the story, or both, is trivial.

It had happened with the sudden catastrophe of a dream – and with all the unreal horror of a dream.

No doubt the news had spread that a Technician was coming through.

It is unscientific to suppose meaningless cases.

A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy.

A foreign policy of domination through spiritual means is his idée fixe, but it's my notion that his ultimate aims aren't spiritual.

calzoncillos.

apareció en el número de junio de 1950 de Astounding. Era la primera historia que escribía que trataba principalmente de computadoras (las llamé «Máquinas» en la historia) más que de robots en sí mismos.

Bel Riose traveled without escort, which is not what court etiquette prescribes

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.

Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn't be so bad … if I could shoot the trouble!

He looked at Retief. "Uh ... got time for a drink?" "I shouldn't drink during office hours," Retief said. He rose. "So I'll take the rest of the day off.