Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed - Isaac Asimov

"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 mathematics can be made to apply in either case."

Groups, like individuals, will rise to strange heights in answer to a challenge, and vegetate in the absence of a challenge.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!