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| fa3b41e | "Mr Baley", said Quemot, "you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic brain". "I'm not saying you can. Robotics is a deductive science and sociology an inductive one. But mathematics can be made to apply in either case." | robotics science-fiction sociology | Isaac Asimov | |
| c35acae | When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion--the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right. | science humor arthur-charles-clarke clarke robotics scientists sci-fi | Isaac Asimov |