952 Quotes by Isaac Asimov

I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will.

Защо, зачуди се той, толкова много хора прекарват дните си, без да се опитат да открият отговори на вечните въпроси? Нима в живота има нещо по-вълнуващо от търсенето на отговори?

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;2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law;The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

Los postulados están establecidos por la suposición y reforzados por la fe. Nada en el Universo puede conmoverlos.

Work of each individual contributes to a totality and so becomes undying part of a totality. That totality is human life. Past and present and to come forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens and thousands of years. And has been growing more elaborate, and on the whole more beautiful.

Is everything normal now?” “Well he hasn’t got religious mania, and he isn’t running around in a circlespouting Gilbert and Sullivan, so I suppose he’s normal.” (45)

I have the shape of a human being and organs equivalent to those of a human being. My organs, in fact, are identical to some of those in a prosthetized human being. I have contributed artistically, literally, and scientifically to human culture as much as any human being now alive. What more can one ask?

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.