Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)

by Isaac Asimov

the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself—no offense intended.”

you are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

We call it ‘globocentrism’ in anthropology. People have a tendency to take it for granted that they are better than their neighbors; that their culture is older and superior to that of other worlds; that what is good in other worlds has been borrowed from them, while what is bad is distorted or perverted in the borrowing or invented elsewhere. And the tendency is to equate superiority in quality with superiority in duration.

There’s no record in the history of the Galaxy of any society being so foolish as to use nuclear explosions as a weapon of war. We would never have survived.

there’s no love letter that doesn’t end in a pentagon of dots to indicate a desire to make love.