Occupation: Author Birth: January 2, 1920 Death: April 6, 1992
I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instanc….
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance..
... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans..
Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth..
In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a fini….
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading..
Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see..
Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night wit….
The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person ….
Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world..
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere..
It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!.
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a f….
The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and ….
You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all..
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics].
Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love..
Economics is on the side of humanity now..
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the….
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but ….
Happiness is doing it rotten your own way..