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Foundation and Earth
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An epic journey through space and time as two individuals search for humanity's true origin.

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The past has its charms, no doubt, but it should never be allowed to dominate the present and the future.

Isaac Asimov

timechange

The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.

Isaac Asimov

knowledgelearning

The only way of learning the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Isaac Asimov

possibilitiesexploration

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Isaac Asimov

persistenceintelligence

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

changesociety

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Isaac Asimov

libertydanger

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.

Isaac Asimov

logicreasoning

All the universe or nothingness. Which shall it be, Passaic?

Isaac Asimov

universeexistence

No man can be a judge in his own case. And no robot can be a judge over another robot.

Isaac Asimov

judgmentfairness

Violence is contrary to the essence of the robotic view of existence. It is the negation of robotics.

Isaac Asimov

violencerobotics