It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
Isaac AsimovBefore another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.
Isaac AsimovThere is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac AsimovAimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw
Isaac Asimov