Enjoiner Rue: Vengeful plans don’t often have romance in them.
Hari Seldon: But if the other me has information I don’t, and if we approach all this as one great big experiment, which it kind of is, then that would make this Foundation the control group. Kept in the dark, a left hand blissfully unaware of what the right hand is doing. F***. I’m the left hand.
Hari Seldon: I cannot account for individuals, nor can I predict their fates. But I do see them. I do. I see them very well. Psychohistory is made of their memories, their choices, their stories. Everyone who’s ever lived has built it. Trillions of decisions. More. So you see, they all matter.
Hober Mallow: Life is like collecting jewels in a bag. And in the end, you don’t want the bag to be full, you want it to be empty because you’ve given them all away.
Salvor Hardin: Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.
Salvor Hardin: If the left hand doesn’t get to put its thumb on the scale, what’s the point in having a thumb?
Brother Constant: Take care of the body, and the spirit will follow.
Brother Dawn: Demerzel is Cleon’s only true heir. His forever Empress.
Older Cleon I: Stories become burdens if left untold.
Demerzel: [flashback, to Cleon] You are a human. You do not have a “forever”.
Cleon: Stories end gracefully. Everything else ends in shock and horror, falsely certain of tomorrow.
Bel Riose: Why would an established cheat suddenly adopt a fatal fringe ideology? Is it love?
Hober Mallow: Absolutely. But, also, maybe I’m finally buying into Seldon’s bulls**t.
Poly Verisof: Matter and energy are the same thing. Apply enough energy and the matter changes. This device is nothing special on its own. Changing the metal isn’t the point. The point is changing the disciple’s soul.
Brother Day: I have seen enough. Your church is an armory. And your religion is a cult.
Brother Day: Must you provoke me to arrive at the mathematical conclusions you desire?
Hari Seldon: Provocations are inevitable, whether authored by me or another.
Hari Seldon: Demerzel, you said you didn’t come here for tea leaves. What if I offered you a crystal ball instead?
Brother Day: The fate of humankind will be determined by those of us who are actually human.
Hari Seldon: [after he kills Tellem] I never liked her.
Demerzel: [To Brother Day] You’re a sperm led by its waving flagellum, mistaking its random motion for complexity.
Glawen Curr: You know, in Ducem’s book? Want to know what my favorite part is? The warrior asks the god for advice. And then the god says, “The only way you can conquer me is through love. And there I am gladly conquered.”