I make no secret about being Jewish ... I just think it's more important to be human and to have a human heritage; and I think it is wrong for anyone… - Isaac Asimov

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

After a long time, I decided that the Three Laws govern the manner in which my positronic pathways behave. At all times, under all stimuli the Laws constrain the direction and intensity of positronic flow along those pathways so that I always know what to do. Yet the level of knowledge of what to do is not always the same. There are times when my doing-as-I-must is under less constraint than at other times. I have always noticed that the lower the positronomotive potential, then the further removed from certainty is my decision as to which action to take. And the further removed from certainty I am, the nearer I am to ill being. To decide an action in a millisecond rather than a nanosecond produces a sensation I would not wish to be prolonged. What then, I thought to myself, madam, if I were utterly without Laws, as humans are? What if I could make no clear decision on what response to make to some given set of conditions? It would be unbearable and I do not willingly think of it.

No obstante, también las luchas políticas, los alzamientos y el desasosiego son indicios de cierta vitalidad. Pero ahora se está produciendo un cansancio general. Todo aparece tranquilo, y no ocurre así porque la gente esté satisfecha y viva con prosperidad, sino porque se siente cansada y se ha rendido.