Isaac Asimov Quotes

¿Cuándo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere?

Los filósofos como Diógenes eran llamados kynikos, de la palabra griega kyon, que significa perro, porque parecían estar siempre ladrando y gruñiendo al género humano (al menos, según una de las versionas sobre el origen de la palabra). En nuestra lengua, esa palabra se ha convertido en "cínico". Aún hoy se usa para designar a quien cree que todas las acciones son inspiradas por motivos malos o egoístas.

Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you wish express a culture that combines the best of the two on an equal but parallel basis.

Trantor could win even such a war, but perhaps not without paying a price that would make victory only a pleasanter name for defeat.

All the land surface of Trantor, 75,000,000 square miles

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.

Allí, en los años siguientes, mientras Roma se hallaba ocupada con Iliria, Amílcar aumentó los dominios de Cartago. Según la tradición, fundó la ciudad de Barcino, nombre derivado de su familia, la actual Barcelona

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. Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.

if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted

Can you fight a force which can make you surrender willingly when it so desires; can make you a faithful servant when it so desires?

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. C

The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

There are many people, many worlds who believe in supernaturalism in one form or another... religion, if you like the word better. We may disagree with them in one way or another, but we are as likely to be wrong in our disbelief as they in their belief. In any case, there is no disgrace in such belief and my questions were not intended as insults.

We can't give up just because the Universe does.