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“La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompétence.”

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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“Si le savoir peut créer des problèmes, ce n'est pas l'ignorance qui les résoudra.”

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“Il y a longtemps que j'ai décidé de suivre une règle stricte : être clair. […] Je me contente d'écrire d'une manière limpide et de créer une relation chaleureuse entre mes lecteurs et moi; quant aux critiques littéraires… eh bien, ils sont libres.”

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I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. [...] I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics — Well, they can do whatever they wish.
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“La connaissance scientifique possède en quelque sorte des propriétés fractales: nous aurons beau accroître notre savoir”

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“Maintenant, reprenons les Trois Lois fondamentales de la Robotique…”

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Invention du mot robotique et première formulation des trois lois de la robotique.
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“Ce qui manque aux adolescents, ce n'est ni l'intelligence ni la faculté de raisonner, c'est tout simplement l'expérience.”

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“Une "information fausse" est par définition incompatible avec toute autre information connue.”

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Le texte précise ainsi quel critère une machine doit appliquer pour distinguer une information vraie d'une fausse.
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“On a tendance à nous confondre parce que nous sommes tous deux des auteurs de textes cérébraux où les concepts scientifiques comptent plus que l'action proprement dite.”

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À propos de Arthur C. Clarke.
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“On peut définir la Science-Fiction comme la branche de la littérature qui se soucie des réponses de l'être humain aux progrès de la science et de la technologie.”

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Isaac Asimov: Citations en anglais

“But suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?”

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"The Dangerous Myth of Creationism" in Penthouse (January 1982); reprinted as Ch. 2 : "Creationism and the Schools" in The Roving Mind (1983), p. 16
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“Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located — so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.”

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Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”; in part II, “Search by the Foundation” originally published as “—And Now You Don’t” in Astounding (November and December 1949 and January 1950)

“Nonsense,” Weston denied, with an involuntary nervous shiver. “That’s completely ridiculous. We had a long discussion at the time we bought Robbie about the First Law of Robotics. You know that it is impossible for a robot to harm a human being; that long before enough can go wrong to alter that First Law, a robot would be completely inoperable. It’s a mathematical impossibility. Besides I have an engineer from U. S. Robots here twice a year to give the poor gadget a complete overhaul. Why, there’s no more chance of anything at all going wrong with Robbie than there is of you or I suddenly going looney—considerably less, in fact. Besides, how are you going to take him away from Gloria?”

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Isaac Asimov livre I, Robot

“Robbie”, p. 17
I, Robot (1950)

“Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.”

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Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 1 “Two Men and the Mule”; in part I, “Search by the Mule” originally published as “Now You See It—” in Astounding (January 1948)

“A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

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Isaac Asimov livre Runaround

"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
Variante: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

“The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.”

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Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 2; originally published as “The Big and the Little” in Astounding (August 1944)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.”

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Source: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538

“It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.”

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"How Do People Get New Ideas?" (1959)
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“Asimov: Battlestar Galactica for instance, started off with twenty to thirty minutes of space battles which looked exactly like air battles in World War I. You could swear that the space ships were surrounded by air the way the maneuvered. One felt it was unworthy.
SWA Magazine: The Vipers in Battlestar Galactica look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future?
Asimov: It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell "whoa" and the airplane came to a halt in mid-air.”

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An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)

“Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.”

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As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
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“A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.”

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Isaac Asimov livre Runaround

"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)

“The house was somehow very lonely at night and Dr. Darell found that the fate of the Galaxy made remarkably little difference while his daughter’s mad little life was in danger.”

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Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”

“It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.”

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Isaac Asimov livre Pebble in the Sky

Pebble in the Sky, chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
Pebble in the Sky (1950)

“[In response to this question by Bill Moyers: What do you see happening to the idea of dignity to human species if this population growth continues at its present rate? ] "It's going to destroy it all. I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up, you have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.”

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Interview by Bill Moyers on Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas (17 October 1988); transcript http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/print/pdfs/woi%20asimov1.pdf (page 6) - audio (20:12) http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/media_players/asimovwoi_audio.html
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