Quotes About Isaac

Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.

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.

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.

60,000 kilometres per second may be the practical (!) speed limit for space travel

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Assassination isn't the way out, Devers. I once tried it, under provocation, when I was twenty – but it solved nothing. I removed a villain from Siwenna, but not the Imperial yoke; and it was the Imperial yoke and not the villain that mattered.

era RG-32 la elección lógica; de hecho, la única. No fue difícil explicarle de algún modo lo que necesitábamos. Archie (era costumbre llamar a un robot por alguna perversión vulgar de su número de serie)

There was an element of secrecy in a home library. It breathed of intellectual anarchy.

soy reconocido inventor de esta palabra (así como de «robótico», «positrónico» y «psicohistoria»)

What is an Earthman?" "An inferior sort of human that ought not to be allowed on Solaria because he breeds disease, master.

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.

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.

I once told Riose that not all the Empire's strength could swerve the dead hand of Hari Seldon.

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.

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!

Schopenhauer was right. It's all that blind will to prolong the human tragedy.

G'on now.' he murmured with that Southern drawl. 'Lie on back and let me take care of you. I promise to go slow...real slow.' - Issac Rothe, Crave

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

The cat, morbidly obese from eating virtually all of Isaac's meals, fell off the table like a four-legged haggis, and trudged away.

As Einstein once wrote (more ringingly in German than in this English translation by one of us [DG]) to honor Isaac Newton: Look unto the stars to teach us How the master's thoughts can reach us Each one follows Newton's math Silently along its path.