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“It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!”

Source: Pebble in the Sky

“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”

Isaac Asimov book The Caves of Steel

Source: The Caves of Steel

“The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity”

Isaac Asimov The End of Eternity

Source: The End of Eternity

“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”

Isaac Asimov

“Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?
A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
Q. You are sure that your statement represents scientific truth?
A. I am.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation and Empire

Source: Foundation and Empire

“Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.”

Isaac Asimov book I, Robot

Source: I, Robot

“Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”

-I did nothing for you.”

-You loved me and your love made me--human.”

Isaac Asimov book Forward the Foundation

Source: Forward the Foundation

“Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”

Isaac Asimov

“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”

Isaac Asimov book I, Robot

Source: I, Robot

“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”

Isaac Asimov book The Robots of Dawn

Source: The Robots of Dawn

“The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation and Empire

Source: Foundation and Empire

“In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.”

Isaac Asimov

Source: Nightfall One

“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Source: Foundation

“Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.”

Isaac Asimov

“Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”

Isaac Asimov book Forward the Foundation

Source: Forward the Foundation

“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”

Isaac Asimov book I, Robot

“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Source: I, Robot (1950)

“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9

“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Source: Foundation

“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”

Isaac Asimov

"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
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