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Isaac Asimov [ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪˌmɔf] orosz származású amerikai író és biokémikus. Tudományos-fantasztikus és tudománynépszerűsítő művei tették ismertté rendkívül sikeres és kivételesen termékeny írói pályafutása során. Több mint 500 kötetet és nagyjából 90 000 levelet, levelezőlapot írt vagy szerkesztett, művei jelentek meg a Dewey-féle tizedes osztályozás minden főosztályában, kivéve a filozófiát. Asimovot a tudományos-fantasztikus irodalom mesterének ismerik el széles körben. Egyike volt a múlt századi sci-fi három nagy öregjének: A két másik sci-fi klasszikus, akivel együtt Asimov népszerűvé tette a tudományos-fantasztikus irodalmat, Robert A. Heinlein és Arthur C. Clarke .

Asimov legismertebb műve az Alapítvány-trilógia, de hasonlóan jelentős a Galaktikus Birodalom-sorozat és a robottörténetek, amelyeket későbbi írásaiban összekapcsolt az Alapítvány-trilógiával.

Asimov a sci-fin kívül krimit és fantasyt is írt. Az Űrvadász-sorozatot Paul French álnév alatt jelentette meg.

Népszerűek olvasmányos stílusban megírt tudományos ismeretterjesztő munkái, illetve tudományos újságírói tevékenységének eredményéből, a több mint 1600 esszéből válogatott esszékötetei. Ilyen ismeretterjesztő művei például a Guide to Science , a három részes Understanding Physics , az Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery , vagy magyar nyelven A biológia rövid története és a Robbanó napok. Esszékötetei például az Asimov on Science , az Asimov on Astronomy vagy a magyarul is megjelent A Hold tragédiája.

Régi tagja és alelnöke is volt a Mensának, habár nem mindig szívesen; „intellektuálisan harcias”-ként jellemezte tagtársait. Jobban élvezte, hogy az Amerikai Humanista Szervezet elnöke lehetett. Róla nevezték el az Asimov kisbolygót, az Asimov's Science Fiction magazint és két különböző Isaac Asimov-díjat is. Wikipedia  

✵ 1920 – 6. április 1992
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Isaac Asimov híres idézetei

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

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

Isaac Asimov Idézetek az akaratról

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”

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).

„Nem félek a számítógépektől, a hiányuktól félek.”

További idézetek

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

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.”

Forrással ellátott idézetek
LIFE magazin (1984. január)

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?”

"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

“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.”

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.”

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)

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

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.”

Isaac Asimov könyv Runaround

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

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

Isaac Asimov könyv Pebble in the Sky

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

“Economics is on the side of humanity now.”

Isaac Asimov könyv The Currents of Space

The Currents of Space (1952)
General sources

“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.”

Mother Earth News interview (1980)

“Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.”

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

““Ponyets! They sent you?”
“Pure chance,” said Ponyets, bitterly, “or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.””

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.”

Isaac Asimov könyv Asimov's Chronology of the World

Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 11
General sources

“If you're going to write a story, avoid contemporary references. They date a story and they have no staying power.”

Isaac Asimov könyv Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 134
General sources

“The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.”

"The Three Numbers" in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September 1974); reprinted in More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)
General sources

“In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.”

Isaac Asimov könyv Puzzles of the Black Widowers

Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 132
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)

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