In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite… — 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
The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I did nothing for you.” -You loved me and your love made… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — 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
