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o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
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ISAAC ASIMOV To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.’ I’ll improvise.
ISAAC ASIMOV ...Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child...
ISAAC ASIMOV Past glories are poor feeding.
ISAAC ASIMOV You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. P...
ISAAC ASIMOV But you haven't tried. You haven't tried once. First you refused to admit that there was a menace at...
ISAAC ASIMOV Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.
ISAAC ASIMOV The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity:

The population under scrutiny is obl...
ISAAC ASIMOV The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out,...
ISAAC ASIMOV Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
ISAAC ASIMOV A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.
ISAAC ASIMOV Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.
ISAAC ASIMOV It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly,
ISAAC ASIMOV It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
ISAAC ASIMOV Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
ISAAC ASIMOV The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by...
ISAAC ASIMOV I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing ...
ISAAC ASIMOV It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
ISAAC ASIMOV It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a ch...
ISAAC ASIMOV To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
ISAAC ASIMOV If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded...
ISAAC ASIMOV All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resents domination. If the domination is by an inf...
ISAAC ASIMOV Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes...
ISAAC ASIMOV Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity...
ISAAC ASIMOV ... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
ISAAC ASIMOV The Three Laws of Robotics:

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

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