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Humans Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
- It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
- The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.
- A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
- Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of…
- The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will…
- It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with…
- ...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world,…
- Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the…
- With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can…
- I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why…
- In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data…
- In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the…
- 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 who create those…
- It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
- Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by…
- Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I did nothing for you.” -You loved me and your love made me--human.
- The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history…
- The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is…
- The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;…
- The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he…
- Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
- ... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
- Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of…
- Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps,…
More Humans Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong