Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.


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It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
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It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a ch...
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded...
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All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resents domination. If the domination is by an inf...
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Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes...
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Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity...
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... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
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The Three Laws of Robotics:

1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,...
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After a long time, I decided that the Three Laws govern the manner in which my positronic pathways b...
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Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

A robot may not injure a human being or, through ...
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Clarke's First L...
ISAAC ASIMOV Mr Baley", said Quemot, "you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic...
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Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you ...
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History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing ...
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I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with s...
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Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so)...
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Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for th...
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No...
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violence is the last resource of incompetence
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All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.
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Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
           
-I...
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Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, si...
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A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of consi...
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A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually rem...
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There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. N...
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If I am right, then [religious fundamentalists] will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. I...
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That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I bel...
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University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now ...
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A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written
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A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First o...
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The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European...
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To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to...
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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. [Th...
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I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
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Nunca dejes que la moral te impida dejar de hacer lo que está bien
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It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eure...
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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