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Isaac Asimov

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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Isaac Asimov on curiosity, taking risk and the value of space exploration – priceless 1983 Muppets Magazine interview

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Count on Isaac Asimov to have the best business card title ever: ”natural resource”

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Isaac Asimov explains his three laws of robotics:

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

Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

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

Also see Asimov on creativity in education and science.

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Bill “The Science Guy” Nye, Isaac Asimov, and Sir David Attenborough on climate change, in another stellar Symphony of Science autotune mashup gem.

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Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature, it’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.

Isaac Asimov