A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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