The best Quotes by Hari Seldon

The best Quotes by Hari Seldon

Hari Seldon is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. In his capacity as mathematics professor at Streeling University on the planet Trantor, Seldon develops psychohistory, an algorithmic science that allows him to predict the future in probabilistic terms.

We fight for Peace. Not because we fear we will lose, but because we know that if there is war, we will win.

Foundation - Season 2

Change is frightening. Especially to those in power.

Foundation - Season 1

Many years from now, if humanity is to climb from the ashes, the coming generations will need the knowledge to build upon, a foundation.

Foundation - Season 1

It's not a theory. It's the future of mankind expressed in numbers. And the empire won't like the future I predict.

Foundation - Season 1

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A long time ago... a man showed me how to predict the future. Our foundation to save humanity was born.

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An empire breathes respect. It requires it for it's life.

Brother Day in Foundation - Season 2

In my empire there's a natural order. The Foundation is a threat to me.

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We can murder the man, but what about the movement, brother? Martyrs tend to have a long half-life.

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Words have a way of fanning into wildfires.

Foundation - Season 1

We must preserve only the most essential pieces of civilization. Deciding what is remembered, what is forgotten.

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When I was a child at the edge of the galaxy I heard stories about a man who could forecast the future. But the story remained dark to me until many years later. Until it became my story. Until it became the only story.

Gaal Dornick in Foundation - Season 1

You can't save yourselves. But you can save your legacy.

Foundation - Season 1

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Past glories are poor feeding.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Isaac Asimov in Foundation

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Isaac Asimov

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

If you start deporting every shady looking guy with questionable tattoos, who's gonna go to Jets games?

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One downside of our big brains is we're the only creatures who are aware that death is inevitable. Although, if you lined ten dogs in a row and shot them one by one, the dog on the end would probably get the gist by about dog four.

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