Quotes About Human

Intuition! What's that? Define it!" "Easily. Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

And it was the amount of energy a single human could produce that dictated military potential, standard of living, happiness, and all besides.

Are you well, sir?" asked Giskard. It was a foolish question, dictated by the programming of the robot, thought Baley, though, at that, it was no worse than the questions asked by human beings, sometimes with wild inappropriateness, out of the programming of etiquette.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child

La palabra «libertad» no tiene sentido cuando se aplica a un robot. Sólo un ser humano puede ser libre.

Un robot no debe dañar a un ser humano o, por su inacción, dejar que un ser humano sufra daño.

Even the sternest oppression, however, cannot stop human thought forever.

en muchas ocasiones las reacciones humanas no parecen seguir con lógica los acontecimientos. —Eso es lo que hace difícil decidir, a veces, lo que puede dañar a un ser humano y lo que no.

Un robot es una máquina computerizada que es capaz de realizar un tipo de tareas que son demasiado complejas para cualquier mente viviente aparte de la del hombre, y de unas características que una máquina no-computerizada no es capaz de realizar.

PSYCHOHISTORY … Gaal Dornick, using non-mathematical concepts, has defined psychohistory to be that branch of mathematics which deals with the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli … … Implicit in all these definitions is the assumption that the human conglomerate being dealt with is sufficiently large for valid statistical treatment.

Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks for more in the way of human response

What is an Earthman?" "An inferior sort of human that ought not to be allowed on Solaria because he breeds disease, master.

But murder applies specifically to human beings. One does not murder an animal, for instance.

Dr Seldon, that you are speaking of an Empire that has stood for twelve thousand years, through all the vicissitudes of the generations, and which has behind it the good wishes and love of a quadrillion human beings?

Did they know that you had a robot husband?" "I had a husband. Don't call him a robot husband. There is no such expression.

No puede esperarse que el Universo respete las emociones humanas. Envejecerá y morirá sin consideración alguna para con los lamentos del hombre, y sus componentes seguirán alejándose unos de otros en un proceso de eterna expansión incluso después de que las galaxias se hayan consumido hasta convertirse en cenizas de enanas blancas.

It merely required the use of that much-neglected commodity—common sense. You see, there is a branch of human knowledge known as symbolic logic, which can be used to prune away all sorts of clogging deadwood that clutters up human language.

Sin la interdependencia humana, desaparece el principal aliciente que ofrece la vida; se esfuman casi todos los valores intelectuales y falta una auténtica razón para vivir. La visualización no puede sustituir la presencia personal. Incluso los propios solarianos se dan cuenta de que la visualización no es más que un sentido a larga distancia.

Toda la vida normal, Peter, consciente o no, se resiste al dominio. Si el dominio es por parte de un inferior, o de un supuesto inferior, el resentimiento se hace más fuerte. Físicamente, y hasta cierto punto mentalmente, un robot, cualquier robot, es superior a un ser humano. ¿Qué lo hace esclavo, entonces? ¡Sólo la Primera Ley! Porque sin ella, la primera orden que daría usted a un robot le costaría la vida.

I tell you. I want to go back to Helicon and take up a study of the mathematics of turbulence, which was my Ph.D. problem, and forget I ever saw—or thought I saw—that turbulence gave an insight into human society.

Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated from each other.

Schopenhauer was right. It's all that blind will to prolong the human tragedy.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.