Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.

It's been an old saw in science fiction for a long time, since 'Frankenstein,' that we're going to create life that's going to turn on us.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

I've created such a monster.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior.

We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

There are lots of things that science will enable us to do that we shouldn’t do.

The creature has been exalted above its creators

We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there is the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, … he’s sure he can control the demon. But it doesn’t work out.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.