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How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection.

— Isaac Asimov The Roving Mind (1983)

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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

The Stars in Their Courses (1974)

A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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