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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.

No man of real competence could have avoided a dash of uncertainty at a job like that.

Modern theoretical mathematicians frown at this and make haughty remarks such as But you are making the unwarranted assumption that the line is the same length when it is straight as when it was curved. I imagine the honest workman organizing the construction of the local temple, face with such an objection, would have solved matters by throwing the objector into the River Nile.

It is unscientific to suppose meaningless cases.

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

Science may be, and has been, misused, but the proper cure for that is not to replace science by non-science and sense by nonsense - but to replace science-misused by science well-used.

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)

You feel safe now that Seldon will speak, and you move against us. A month ago you were soft and yielding, when our ships defeated the Mule at Terel. I might remind you, sir, that it is the Foundation Fleet that has been defeated in open battle five times, and that the ships of the Independent Trading Worlds have won your victories for you.

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

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

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

Though only a robot, he had known the continuity and stability of family life; he had known warmth; he had known love.

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

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

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.

Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.

There will be other crises in the time to come when money power has become as dead a force as religion is now. Let my successors solve those new problems, as I have solved the one of today.

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.

It seems perfectly obvious that, since Terminus cannot defend itself, Anacreon must take over the job for its own sake. You understand we have no desire to interfere with internal administration—' 'Uh-huh,' grunted Hardin dryly. '—but we believe that it would be best for all concerned to have Anacreon establish a military base upon the planet.

died in the slave mines eighty years ago with your husband's great-grandfather, because he lacked wisdom and didn't lack heart—

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

I'll admit that this Frankenstein Complex you're exhibiting has a certain justification

But as for me,' and he concluded in a whisper, so that Gaal could scarcely hear him, 'I am finished.