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Quotes from Robot series — Isaac Asimov

1920–1992 United States

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You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates.

Robot series (1950)

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Robot series (1950)

A robot, the man had said, is logical but not reasonable.

Robot series (1950)

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

Robot series (1950)

Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.

Robot series (1950)

Just you think first, and don't bother to speak afterward, either.

Robot series (1950)

Men grew desperate and the border between bitter frustration and wild destruction is sometimes easily crossed.

Robot series (1950)

The division between human and robot is perhaps not as significant as that between intelligence and nonintelligence.

Robot series (1950)

“Is that important?”
“Everything is important till proven otherwise.”

Robot series (1950)

I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.

Robot series (1950)

There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatible with the greater, the lesser must give way.

Robot series (1950)

Genes aren’t everything. Environment counts too, and environment can bend into actual psychosis where genes indicate only a potentiality for a particular psychosis.

Robot series (1950)

Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.

Robot series (1950)

Anything could be found in figures if the search were long enough and hard enough and if the proper pieces of information were ignored or overlooked.

Robot series (1950)

Goodbye, friend Elijiah, and remember that, although people apply the phrase to Aurora, it is, from this point on, Earth itself that is the true World of the Dawn.

Robot series (1950)

There's nothing like deduction. We've determined everything about our problem but the solution.

Robot series (1950)

Daneel rose. He was alone - and with a Galaxy to care for.

Robot series (1950)

The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

Robot series (1950)

Remember, you once said, Lije, that people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don’t know how to fix themselves.

Robot series (1950)

I tell you I know the type of people that become Medievalists. They’re soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.

Robot series (1950)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Asimov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.