# Quote — Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

> Francis Quinn was a politician of the new school. That, of course, is a meaningless expression, as are all expressions of the sort. Most of the “new schools” we have were duplicated in the social life of ancient Greece, and perhaps, if we knew more about it, in the social life of ancient Sumeria and in the lake dwellings of prehistoric Switzerland as well.

- Author: [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md)
- Book: [I, Robot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot.md)
- Page: 148
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#I,_Robot_(1950)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/francis-quinn-was

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> “Fifty years,” I hackneyed, “is a long time.”
>
> “Not when you’re looking back at them,” she said. “You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/fifty-years-i-hackneyed.md)

Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md)

> I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.

p. 52 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/i-accept-nothing.md)

Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md)

> Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.

p. 89 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/milton-ashe-is-not.md)