The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
You wash your hands, don't you?Bayley's eyes dropped to his hands. They were as clean as need be. Yes, he said.All right. I suppose it's a measure of instability to feel such revulsion at dirty hands...
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...
Changelessness is decay.A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.Changelessness is a change for the worse
It's the writing that teaches you.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too lo...
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, y...
...We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the theory of relativity worked out between 1905 and 1916...
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
یک موجود آگاه به وجود ابدی، چه می خواهد - جز پایان این ابدیت؟
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.
I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every perso...
Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we...
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at on...