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)
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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
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 6 “Earth” section 1, p. 100
Forrás: Foundation's Edge
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 12 “Agent” section 4, p. 226
“The spell of power never quite releases its hold.”
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 12 “Lord”
“We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.”
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 20 “Conclusion” section 1, p. 408
Part IV, The Traders, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990, p.6
General sources
"By Jove!" in View from a Height (1963); often misquoted as "Jupiter plus debris".
General sources
"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
"Nowhere!" Asimov's Science Fiction (September 1983)
General sources
“To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.”
Dedication, p. 5; this refers to the quotation of Friedrich Schiller from which Asimov derived the title of this novel: "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
The Gods Themselves (1972)
“Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”
Part III, The Mayors, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.”
“Reason”, p. 52
I, Robot (1950)
“How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?”
The Last Question (1956)
The Stars in Their Courses (1974), p. 36
General sources
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 19 “Decision” section 7, p. 404
“I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.”
Section 2, Chapter 2a, p. 93
The Gods Themselves (1972)
“Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.”
Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 49; comparable to "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." — E. B. White, in "Some Remarks on Humor," preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)
General sources
Mother Earth News interview (1980)
“If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.”
Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 226
General sources
Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 4 “The Emperor; in part I, “The General” originally published as “Dead Hand” in Astounding (April 1945)
Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
All page numbers from the 1964 Bantam Pathfinder mass market paperback edition, 6th printing
Pebble in the Sky (1950)