Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)

by Isaac Asimov

Her speeches did not stir men’s minds, nor did she have a gift for the dramatic gesture, but she had a capacity for making quiet decisions and sticking by them as long as she was convinced she was right.

Trantor! For eight thousand years, it was the capital of a large and mighty political entity that spanned an ever-growing union of planetary systems.

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

We had an old, poetic name for the star Comporellon circled—Epsilon Eridani.”

Geek Moment: Epsilon Eridani is in the sector of space containing Epsilon III, home of Babylon 5.

‘Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.’

“I am a man of passivity, Golan. I have spent my life doubled over records while waiting for other records to arrive. I do nothing but wait. You are a man of action and you are in deep pain when action is impossible.”