Isaac Asimov idézet (323 idézet, oldal 6)

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Isaac Asimov híres idézetei

„Az élet legszomorúbb aspektusa most az, hogy a tudomány gyorsabban gyűjti az ismeretet, mint a társadalom a bölcsességet.”

Isaac Asimov

„Egy tévedésben lévő finom gondolat mégis eredményes kutatásra adhat okot, amely nagy értékű igazságokat állapíthat meg.”

Isaac Asimov

„Az élet egy út, de nem kell aggódni, találsz majd a végén egy parkolóhelyet.”

Isaac Asimov

Halál

„A sci-fi írók látják az elkerülhetetlent. És bár a problémák és katasztrófák lehetnek elkerülhetetlenek, a megoldások nem.”

Isaac Asimov

Forrással ellátott idézetek
Eredeti: "How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazin (1975 április) később Asimov on Science Fiction-ben is megjelent (1981).

„Ami engem illet, én kitűnően érezném magam abban a helyzetben, hogy semmiképpen sem csalhatok - ha más sem csalhat. Legtöbbünknek ez adócsökkenést jelentene.”

Isaac Asimov könyv A Hold tragédiája

A Hold tragédiája (1973)
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„A változás, a folyamatos változás, az elkerülhetetlen változás az, ami a társadalom meghatározó tényezője manapság. Semmilyen érzelmi döntés nem történhet anélkül, hogy nem csak a mai világot, hanem a jövőbeli világot figyelembe vennénk. Ez viszont azt jelenti, hogy az államférfiainknak, az üzletembereinknek, s egyáltalán mindenkinek sci-fi módon kell gondolkodnia.”

Isaac Asimov

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

„Képzeld el az embereket, akik elhiszik ezeket a dolgokat, és nem szégyellik teljes mértékben figyelmen kívül hagyni a türelmes felfedezéseit a gondolkodó agyaknak mióta a Bibliát megírták. És ezek a tudatlan emberek, a legtanulatlanabbak, a legfantáziátlanabbak, a közülünk legkevésbé gondolkodók azok, akik mindannyiunk pásztorai, vezetői akarnak lenni. Akik ránkerőltetnék a gyarló és gyerekes hiedelmeiket. Akik megszállnák iskoláinkat, könyvtárainkat, otthonainkat. Én bizony keservesen neheztelek rájuk.”

Isaac Asimov

Kanadai Ateista Hírlevél (1994)
Forrással ellátott idézetek

„Amiért rám fognak emlékezni az emberek, az az Alapítvány trilógia és a robotika három törvénye. Amiért akarom, hogy emlékezzenek rám, az nem egy könyv. Nem is könyvek tucatjai. Minden egyes dolog, amit írtam párhuzamba állítható, akár túl is szárnyalható valaki más művével. Viszont a teljes életművem nagyságrendben, minőségben és változatosságban megismételhetetlen. Ez az, amért emlékezetes akarok lenni.”

Isaac Asimov

Yours, Isaac Asimov (1973. szeptember 20.)
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Eredeti: Yours, Isaac Asimov (1973. szeptember 20.)

„Én ateista vagyok, a lehető legnagyobb mértékig. Sokáig tartott, amíg kimondtam. Már jópár éve ateista vagyok, de valahogy úgy éreztem, intellektuális felelőtlenség azt mondani, hogy valaki ateista, mert ez valami nem létezéséről a tudásunk. Valahogy jobb volt azt mondani, hogy humanista vagy szabadgondolkodású. Végül úgy döntöttem, hogy én legalább annyira érzelmi lény vagyok, mint gondolkodó, érzelmileg pedig ateista vagyok. Nincs rá bizonyítékom, hogy megmutassam, Isten nem létezik, de ezt olyan erősen gyanítom, hogy nem akarom pazarolni az időmet.”

Isaac Asimov

Free Inquiry (1982 tavasza)
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„Érzelmileg ateista vagyok. Nincsenek tények, hogy bizonyítsam, hogy Isten nem létezik, de annyira erősen hiszek ebben, hogy nem akarom erre pazarolni az időmet.”

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov idézetek

„A különböző sci-fi történetek ugyanolyan triviálisnak tűnhetnek a ma vak kritikusainak és filozófusainak, mint akármikor. De a science fiction magja, a lénye, a fogalom, ami körül újít kritikus lehet a megmentőnknek, ha egyáltalán meg kell, hogy mentsenek”

Isaac Asimov

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).

„Az élet abban különbözik a sakktól, hogy a játék a sakk-matt után is folytatódik.”

Isaac Asimov

Halál

„Az a szóbeszéd járja Amerikában, hogy két intelligens faj létezik a földön: emberek és magyarok.”

Isaac Asimov

További idézetek

„Nem félek a számítógépektől, a hiányuktól félek.”

Isaac Asimov

További idézetek

„Nincs semmi ijesztő egy örökkévaló álom nélküli alvásban. Ez biztosan jobb, mint az örökké való kín a pokolban.”

Isaac Asimov

Halál

„Az élet kellemes. A halál békés. Az átmenet az, ami problémás.”

Isaac Asimov

Halál

„Én Isaac Asimov vagyok. (Az utolsó szavai Janet Asimov szerint.)”

Isaac Asimov

Halál

„Variant: Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamed up after being drunk all night.”

Isaac Asimov

Attributed, Beliefs and Religion
Eredeti: Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

„Ha az orvosom azt mondaná, hogy csak hat percem van hátra élni, nem tűnődnék. Egy kicsit gyorsabban gépelnék.”

Isaac Asimov

Forrással ellátott idézetek
LIFE magazin (1984. január)

„Ha igazam van, a vallási fundamentalisták nem fognak a mennybe kerülni, mert semmilyen menny nem létezik. Ha nekik van igazuk, azért nem fognak a mennybe kerülni, mert képmutatók.”

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov: Idézetek angolul

“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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Isaac Asimov

"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

“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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Isaac Asimov

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)

“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 könyv I, Robot

“Robbie”, p. 17
I, Robot (1950)

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

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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.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv Runaround

"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.

“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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Isaac Asimov

Forrás: 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)
General sources

“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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Isaac Asimov

An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)

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

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Isaac Asimov

As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
General sources

“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 könyv 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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Forrás: 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 könyv 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 <br class="br">General sources

““Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?”
Pelorat said, “If you list it like that—”
“List it any way you please,” said Trevize. “I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.””

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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.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv The Currents of Space

The Currents of Space (1952)
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“Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
Asimov: Those that have proved permanent—the ones that affected every facet of life and made certain that mankind could never go back again—were always brought about by science and technology. In fact, the same twin "movers" were even behind the other "solely" historical changes. Why, for instance, did Martin Luther succeed, whereas other important rebels against the medieval church—like John Huss—fail? Well, Luther was successful because printing had been developed by the time he advanced his cause. So his good earthy writings were put into pamphlets and spread so far and wide that the church officials couldn't have stopped the Protestant Reformation even if they had burned Luther at the stake.
Plowboy: Today the world is changing faster than it has at any other time in history. Do you then feel that science—and scientists—are especially important now?
Asimov: I do think so, and as a result it's my opinion that anyone who can possibly introduce science to the nonscientist should do so. After all, we don't want scientists to become a priesthood. We don't want society's technological thinkers to know something that nobody else knows—to "bring down the law from Mt. Sinai"—because such a situation would lead to public fear of science and scientists. And fear, as you know, can be dangerous.
Plowboy: But scientific knowledge is becoming so incredibly vast and specialized these days that it's difficult for any individual to keep up with it all.
Asimov: Well, I don't expect everybody to be a scientist or to understand every new development. After all, there are very few Americans who know enough about football to be a referee or to call the plays … but many, many people understand the sport well enough to follow the game. It's not important that the average citizen understand science so completely that he or she could actually become involved in research, but it is very important that people be able to "follow the game" well enough to have some intelligent opinions on policy.
Every subject of worldwide importance—each question upon which the life and death of humanity depends—involves science, and people are not going to be able to exercise their democratic right to direct government policy in such areas if they don't understand what the decisions are all about.”

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Isaac Asimov

Mother Earth News interview (1980)