# Quote — Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

> The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

- Author: [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md)
- Book: [I, Robot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot.md)
- Page: 187
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#I,_Robot_(1950)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/the-machine-is-only

## More from this book

> “Fifty years,” I hackneyed, “is a long time.”
>
> “Not when you’re looking back at them,” she said. “You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/fifty-years-i-hackneyed.md)

Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md)

> I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.

p. 52 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/i-accept-nothing.md)

Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md)

> Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.

p. 89 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/milton-ashe-is-not.md)