Creo que Dios preferiría un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace más que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horr… - Isaac Asimov

What I have done is to choose between the death of my body and the death of my aspirations and desires. To have let my body live at the cost of the greater death - That is the true violation of the Third Law. Not this. As a robot I might live forever, yes. But I tell you that I would rather die as a man than live eternally as a robot.

If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me a convert of mountain‐moving fervor and that I shall suddenly grow long earlocks and learn Hebrew and go about denouncing the heathen — you little know the effect of the Bible on me. Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

when the old empire began to rot at the fringes, it could be considered that science, as science, had failed the outer worlds. To be re-accepted it would have to present itself in another guise