“I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energ...” — Isaac Asimov Quote

“I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.”

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”

“I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.”

“All evil is good become cancerous.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

“There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.”

“With a face of wrinkled leather and a ropy”

“The contents of our mind are a product of our genes, our environment, and our personal choice. Our genes nudge us in certain directions—sometimes this nudge might more aptly be described as a shove—but we make the decisions that determine the trajectory of our lives.”

“Machine Man faithfully believes that conscious intelligent life came by chance from unconscious, dumb and dead matter that nobody suddenly made out of nothing for no reasons at all.”

“The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.”

“Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.”