Forward the Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
“You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.”
“people live and die by nonsense. It's not what is so much as what people think is.”
“The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.”
“We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is good for us.' 'For you, because you're young, Wanda. You have many, many evenings ahead of you. I don't. I want more good ones.”
“You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can’t always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you’ve planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.”
“The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.”
“People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.”
“What we gain in the straightaways, we lose in the roundabouts. That's the way the universe works. We've just got to fool it somehow.”
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