Quotes About Science

robot = máquina + computadora.

El siglo XVIII fue la edad de oro de los «autómatas».

La creación de los robots fue considerada como el primer ejemplo de la arrogancia desmesurada de la Humanidad, de su intento de despojar al teólogo de su manto, por medio de la ciencia mal manejada. La creación de vida humana, con un alma, era prerrogativa única de Dios.

This is all disillusioning, Beenay. I thought it was only us psychologists who made the data fit the theories and called the result 'science.' Seems more like something the Apostles of Flame might do!

calzoncillos.

apareció en el número de junio de 1950 de Astounding. Era la primera historia que escribía que trataba principalmente de computadoras (las llamé «Máquinas» en la historia) más que de robots en sí mismos.

Neurochemical Electromathematics.

Hackett's Equation.

Excellence, we have. Yet Seldon's science is known—only to Seldon. We ourselves have but faith.

a Galaxis a vesztébe rohan!

La verdad científica está por encima de la lealtad y la deslealtad.

You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

There have been cases all through Galactic history where isolated planetary systems have reverted to savagery, and what have we learned there? In every case, such savages attribute the to-them-incomprehensible forces of Nature—storms, pestilences, droughts—to sentient beings more powerful and more arbitrary than men.

In fact,' said Fara, happily, 'you all seem to forget that Seldon was the greatest psychologist of our time and that he was the founder of our Foundation. It seems reasonable to assume that he used his science to determine the probable course of the history of the immediate future. If he did, as seems likely, I repeat, he would certainly have managed to find a way to warn us of danger and, perhaps, to point out a solution. The Encyclopedia was very dear to his heart, you know.

He started blindly but within a month he had that feeling that every scientist recognizes—the endless click-click as unexpected pieces fall into place, as annoying anomalies become anomalous no more—It was the feel of Truth.

Întreaga ÅŸtiin?? se bazeaz? pe credinÅ£a în anumite premise ÅŸi în valabilitatea deducÅ£iei ÅŸi a inducÅ£iei.

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica.

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica. Tengo por lo menos la esperanza de haber escrito ensayos serios sobre imperios galácticos y psicohistoria.

the use of electrodes at skull sutures by a newly developed means which enabled contact to be made directly with the gray cells, without even the necessity of shaving a patch of skull.

The rate of technological advance has been slowing for centuries and is down to a crawl now. In some cases, it has stopped altogether. Is this something you've noticed? After all, you're a mathematician.' 'I can't say I've given the matter any thought.' 'No one does. It's accepted. Scientists are very good these days at saying that things are impossible, impractical, useless. They condemn any speculation at once.

a large minority of human beings are mentally equipped to take part in the advance of physical science

Darwin and Karl Marx didn't reveal the secret of the world. Of all the theories about creation, the one expounded in Genesis is the most intelligent. All this talk about primordial mists or the Big Bang is a wild absurdity. If someone found a watch on an island and said it had been made by itself or that it developed through evolution, he would be considered a lunatic. But according to modern science, the universe evolved all on its own. Is the universe less complicated than a watch?

One did not need to be a believer to see the purpose in nature, the truth of so-called teleology, so taboo in science.

We have to defend democracy, but remember that not everything is politics. Without science, industry, and technology, no progress is possible, and without music and art, there's no soul.