Benefit of the doubt Quote by Dan Simmons

“The reality was however, if human beings and humanity wanted the high level of perfection, they demanded from life and science at an affordable…

— Jill Thrussell

...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism.

— Theo van Doesburg

To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the…

— Richard Dawkins

“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be used or…

— Thomas Horn

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness…

— Michio Kaku

In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we…

— Alan Turing

“Machine Man faithfully believes that conscious intelligent life came by chance from unconscious, dumb and dead matter that nobody suddenly made out of nothing…

— Arne Klingenberg

“Humans do inspiration; machines do validation.”

— Alistair Croll

“Living creatures, including human beings, are organic hardware and software, running programs encoded in DNA.”

— Sahara Sanders

“Mankind made machines in his own likeness, and used them for his delight and service. The machines had no soul or they had no…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Only a technological age could condemn unborn generations to exist in it, as if man were mere protoplasm, without emotion or aspiration.”

— Brian Aldiss