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These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

You wash your hands, don't you? Bayley's eyes dropped to his hands. They were as clean as need be. Yes, he said. All right. I suppose it's a measure of instability to feel such revulsion at dirty hands as to be unable to clean an oily mechanism by hand even in a emergency. Still, in the ordinary course of living, the revulsion keeps you clean, which is good.

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

Actions such as his could come only from a robot, or from a very honorable and decent human being. But you see, you can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

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.

That's right, but it's not a mathematical proposition. It's a sociological observation and there is always the possibility of exceptions to such observations. - Dr. Mandamus to Dr. Kelden Amadiro

Baley said, sharply, "Nevertheless bound by friendship. Do not, for your own sake, test the force of our—" Now it was he who paused and, as though to his own surprise, completed the sentence impossibly, "—love.

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

Violence, came the retort, is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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

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

Common belief, even universal belief, is not, in itself, evidence.

Well, there is one—a new one. In this past year or two, there has come word of a strange man whom they call the Mule." "The Mule?" She considered. "Ever hear of him, Torie?

It's really disheartening, the universal stupidity. I think that I wouldn't grieve at mankind's suicide through sheer evilness of heart, or through mere recklessness. There's something so damned undignified at going to destruction through sheer thickheaded stupidity. What's the use of being men if that's how you have to die.

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.

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.

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

Why do you slink away as I approach? Berliner: I fear you, majesty. King (wielding his stick): You're supposed to love me, scum! Love me! [Asimov's Chronology of the World, p. 276]

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

the Emperor had had to remember to avoid making commitments of substance, while freely applying the lotion of words without substance.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.' Character who said it in novel: Salvor Hardin

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