The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.”
“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”
“The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.”
“people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don’t know how to fix themselves.”
“Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.”
“The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.”
“In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous.”
“You are a practical man, Elijah. You do not moon romantically over Earth's past, despite your healthy interest in it. Nor do you stubbornly embrace the City culture of Earth's present day. We felt that people such as yourself were the ones that could lead Earthmen to the stars once more.”
“The robot said, 'I have been trying, friend Julius, to understand some remarks Elijah made to me earlier. Perhaps I am beginning to, for it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of thi sevil into what you call good.' He hesitated, then, almost as though he were surprised at his own owrds, he said, 'Go, and sin no more!”
“Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's purse.”
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Book Keywords:
daneel, transcendentalism, population-density, sci-fi, olivaw, urban-life, simple-living, crowds, nature, robots
