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Isaac Asimov quotes
10 quotes from 1 of Isaac Asimov’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
The magnificent possession
“Like a million dollars; and that’s what I’m going to sell the secret of ammonium metal for. It’s the fat of the land for me from now on.”
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“Riches, like poverty, has its own peculiar problems,” he remarked sententiously to himself as he braked the car before the two-story, marble edifice that was the bank.
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It’s not as bad as all that, of course. The discovery will make you famous and you’ll be able to demand your own price, working at any industrial lab in the country.
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“I wish I’d never seen the damned stuff! It’s brought nothing but trouble.”
— Spoken by a character
What followed immediately after that can never be fully described.
The odor grew steadily more powerful and their wild exertions to escape it had already succeeded in wrecking the laboratory and had upset the vat of Ammonaline.
The spoon continued its deadly work.
Squadrons of police came--and left.
They did not stop until they found themselves neck-deep in water, with blessed, pure air above them.
You are dreaming, gentlemen. The fact of the matter is that my company has been on the track of ammonium for years now, and we are just at the point of solving the problem.
— Spoken by a character