Isaac Asimov híres idézetei
Forrással ellátott idézetek
Eredeti: "How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazin (1975 április) később Asimov on Science Fiction-ben is megjelent (1981).
A Hold tragédiája (1973)
Forrással ellátott idézetek
Forrással ellátott idézetek
Eredeti: "My Own View" a The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction-ből (1978, szerkesztette Robert Holdstock), később Asimov on Science Fiction-ben is megjelent (1981).
Isaac Asimov Idézetek az akaratról
Kanadai Ateista Hírlevél (1994)
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Yours, Isaac Asimov (1973. szeptember 20.)
Forrással ellátott idézetek
Eredeti: Yours, Isaac Asimov (1973. szeptember 20.) <!-- 329. oldal -->
Free Inquiry (1982 tavasza)
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Isaac Asimov idézetek
Forrással ellátott idézetek
Eredeti: "My Own View" a The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction-ből (1978, szerkesztette Robert Holdstock), később Asimov on Science Fiction-ben is megjelent (1981).
Attributed, Beliefs and Religion
Eredeti: Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Forrással ellátott idézetek
LIFE magazin (1984. január)
Isaac Asimov: Idézetek angolul
“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 11 “Sayshell” section 3, p. 205
Forrás: Foundation's Edge
Kontextus: Pelorat sighed. “I will never understand people.”
“There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”
“It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!”
Forrás: Pebble in the Sky
“The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity”
Forrás: The End of Eternity
Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“… you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”
Forrás: I, Robot
“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”
Forrás: The Robots of Dawn
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Forrás: I, Robot (1950)
“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly”
Változat: It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Forrás: Foundation
"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
General sources
“Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Változat: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Forrás: Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5; This also appears three times in "Bridle and Saddle" which is titled "The Mayors" within Foundation. It is derived from the famous phrase by Samuel Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and from the words of Lady Anne Bellamy in H. Rider Haggard's Dawn, “I do not believe in violence; it is the last resource of fools.” Asimov is usually quoted simply with "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."