A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.
The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic.
Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!
The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.
Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.
When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I’m writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.
The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don’t know what the laws of nature are.
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once...
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.