Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husban...
The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.
I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it w...
Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me, he said, then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief...
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what addition...
During the century after , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
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.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and...
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying.
Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.
You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are...
Mr Baley, said Quemot, you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic brain.I'm not saying you can. Robotics is a deductive science and sociology an inductive one. But mat...
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspirator...