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)
Forrással ellátott idézetek
Yours, Isaac Asimov (1973. szeptember 20.)
Forrással ellátott idézetek
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Free Inquiry (1982 tavasza)
Forrással ellátott idézetek
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 Dangerous Myth of Creationism" in Penthouse (January 1982); reprinted as Ch. 2 : "Creationism and the Schools" in The Roving Mind (1983), p. 16
General sources
Forrás: 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)
“Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.”
Forrás: 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.”
"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
Változat: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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.”
Forrás: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538
"How Do People Get New Ideas?" (1959)
General sources
An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)
As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
General sources
"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”
Pebble in the Sky, chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
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
General sources
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 14 “Forward!” section 1, p. 281
“Economics is on the side of humanity now.”
The Currents of Space (1952)
General sources
Mother Earth News interview (1980)
Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“Hypocrisy is a universal phenomenon. It ends with death, but not before.”
"By the Numbers" (May 1973), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 188
General sources
Interview http://americanindian.net/asimov.html in Southwest Airlines Magazine 1979)
General sources
Part IV, The Traders, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.”
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 18
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“The foundation of all technology is fire.”
Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 11
General sources
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 134
General sources
Before the Golden Age (1974), Vol. 1, p. 5 of the 1975 Orbit edition
General sources
Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 12 “Captain and Mayor”
"The Three Numbers" in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September 1974); reprinted in More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)
General sources
Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 132
General sources
Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990), pp. 74-75
General sources
“It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.”
Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 4
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)