Asimov Foundation Quotes

#1. Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Isaac Asimov

#2. Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

Thornton Wilder

#3. Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

Isaac Asimov

#4. 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

#5. There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Isaac Asimov

#6. violence is the last resource of incompetence

Isaac Asimov

#7. There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

Patti Smith

#9. If some people deviate or step out of the path Jesus has laid, others will have to take up the baton and continue the race

Sunday Adelaja

#10. For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I was a child, I have been fascinated by science fiction. My all-time favorite is 'The Foundation Trilogy,' by Isaac Asimov.

Michio Kaku

#11. I am not a f**king pleasure girl, damn you! I'm an officer!

Morgan Hawke

#12. Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

Ivan Turgenev

#13. Unlock your mind, unlock your mind. Throw off the fear, and let us fly.

Heather Nova

#14. From the radiating point of Siwenna, the forces of the Empire reached out cautiously into the black unknown of the Periphery. Giant ships passed the vast distances that separated the vagrant stars at the Galaxy's rim, and felt their way around the outermost edge of Foundation influence.

Isaac Asimov

#15. Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no
change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is
theirs.

Isaac Asimov

#16. A wall is happy when it is well designed, when it rests firmly on its foundation, when its symmetry balances its part and produces no unpleasant stresses. Good design can be worked out on the mathematical principles of mechanics.

Isaac Asimov

#17. He never created a finish product. Finished products are for decadent minds. His was an evolving mechanism and the Second Foundation was the instrument of that evolution.

Isaac Asimov

#18. All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

Isaac Asimov

#19. It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Isaac Asimov

#20. I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

Karen Duffy

#21. The Foundation has secrets. They have books, old books - so old that the language they are in is only known to a few of the top men. But the secrets are shrouded in ritual and religion, and may use them.

Isaac Asimov

#22. A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Margaret Heffernan

#23. Survivor" is not a label you choose for yourself.

Harry Smith