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
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable… — 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
“Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting… — 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
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
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Right! Not that I particularly like having a robot tell me my job, nor that I think he can do it!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.” — 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
“Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am… — 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
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
