Isaac Asimov Quotes About Conflict

Quotes about: Conflict

• Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Philosophy, Numbers

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor: A Lifetime Collection of Favorite Jokes, Anecdotes, and Limericks with Copious Notes on how to Tell Them and why”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

  Isaac Asimov

  Order, Law, Long

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “In memory yet green: the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954”, Doubleday Books

• Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself---what's the expression---ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Expression, Bangs

• A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

  Isaac Asimov

  Law, Long, Robots

  'I, Robot' (1950) in 'Runaround'

• A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

  Isaac Asimov

  Order, Law, Robots

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.31, Spectra

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