Now tell me, where was the need for violence?
The division between human and robot is perhaps not as significant as that between intelligence and nonintelligence.
An insolubility is not a problem.
You see, Elijah, when you live several centuries, you have plenty of time to lose thousands of things. Be th-thankful for short life, Elijah.
And then – U. S. Robots has interstellar travel, and humanity has the opportunity for galactic empire.
No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.
Dors shook her head. “I can’t bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification – even by other human beings. It’s these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.
Science fiction is important because it fights the natural notion that there’s something permanent about things the way they are right now.
Pelorat sighed. “I will never understand people.” “There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves.
Hari Seldon called Trantor ‘Star’s End,’ he whispered, ‘and why not that bit of poetic imagery? All the universe was once guided from this rock; all the apron strings of the stars led here. ‘All roads lead to Trantor,’ says the old proverb, ’and that is where all stars end.
Essentially they were those who had not adapted themselves to what had once been called the Atomic Age, in the days when atoms were a novelty. Actually, they were the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who had lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.
Dors shook her head. “I can’t bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification – even by other human beings. It’s these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.” “And other respectable people,” said Seldon, “who create these respectable people. These mutual animosities are as much a part of humanity –.
No hay manera de diferenciar un robot de un ser humano bueno.
El gobernador era corpulento, macizo, bajo y de aspecto vulgar.
You feel humiliated, my young man, because thinking you understood so much so well, you suddenly find that many very apparent things were unknown to you. Thinking you were one of the Lords of the Galaxy; you suddenly find that you stand near to destruction. Naturally, you will resent the ivory tower in which you lived; the seclusion in which you were educated; the theories on which you were reared.
Mankind has lost its own say in its future.’ ‘It never had any, really.
Remember, to be truly effective, it is not necessary to hold the mind under a tight, controlling barrier which to the intelligent probe is as informative as a naked mentality. Rather, one should cultivate an innocence, an awareness of self, and an unselfconsciousness of self which leaves one nothing to hide.
An unjust law,” said R. Daneel evenly, “is a contradiction in terms.
If you have the courage to ask the question, you should have the courage to ask it openly.
The words that have spurred the greatest scientific breakthroughs are probably not Eureka but gee, that’s funny!