You are trying to say that I am a silly robot following a predetermined course into destruction. - Isaac Asimov

The Bible and science agree in being unable to say anything certain about what happened before the beginning. There is this difference. The Bible will never be able to tell us. It has reached its final form, and it simply doesn't say. Science, on the other hand, is still developing, and the time may come when it can answer questions that, at present, it cannot.

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that “news” is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different — in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

They are against the Machine?" "They would be against mathematics or against the art of writing if they had lived at the appropriate time.