Isaac Asimov idézet (323 idézet, oldal 8)

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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)
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„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

játék , Élet

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

Isaac Asimov

További idézetek

Emberek

„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

Alvás , Pokol

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

Isaac Asimov

Halál

Halál , Élet

„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

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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

Vallás

Isaac Asimov: Idézetek angolul

“SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?
Asimov: Well, I hope it does get off the ground. And I hope they expand it, because the shuttle program is the gateway to everything else. By means of the shuttle, we will be able to build space stations and power stations, laboratory facilities and habitations, and everything else in space.
SWA Magazine: How about orbital space colonies? Do you see these facilities being built or is the government going to cut back on projects like this?
Asimov: Well, now you've put your finger right on it. In order to have all of these wonderful things in space, we don't have to wait for technology - we've got the technology, and we don't have to wait for the know-how - we've got that too. All we need is the political go-ahead and the economic willingness to spend the money that is necessary. It is a little frustrating to think that if people concentrate on how much it is going to cost they will realize the great amount of profit they will get for their investment. Although they are reluctant to spend a few billions of dollars to get back an infinite quantity of money, the world doesn't mind spending $400 billion every years on arms and armaments, never getting anything back from it except a chance to commit suicide.”

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Isaac Asimov

An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)

“It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.”

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Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 15 “Gaia-S” section 2, p. 302

“You are a valuable subject, Brodrig. You always suspect far more than is necessary, and I have but to take half your suggested precautions to be utterly safe.”

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Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 4 “The Emperor”

“He believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don’t believe in it at all.”

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Part III, The Mayors, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters… In between two of the segments she asked me…"But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?" I said, "Type faster." This was widely quoted, but the "six months" was changed to "six minutes," which bothered me. It's "six months."”

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Asimov Laughs Again (1992)
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“Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.”

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Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 17 “Gaia” section 5, p. 363

“Miniaturization doesn't actually make sense unless you miniaturize the very atoms of which matter is composed. Otherwise a tiny brain in a man the size of an insect, composed of normal atoms, is composed of too few atoms for the miniaturized man to be any more intelligent than the ant. Also, miniaturizing atoms is impossible according to the rules of quantum mechanics.”

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As quoted in Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies (1984) edited by Danny Peary, p. 5
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“Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, “then I would say this lady can not exist — for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.”

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Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 13 “Lieutenant and Clown”

“The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.”

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Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)
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“Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.”

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Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
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“It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv The Gods Themselves

Section 1, Chapter 7, p. 56; the book is set in the year 2100.
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv Pebble in the Sky

Forrás: Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 15 “The Odds That Vanished”, p. 136

“For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat’s are really deadly.”

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Part III, The Mayors, section 7
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv I, Robot

“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 187
I, Robot (1950)

“Science Digest asked me to see the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and write an article for them on the science it contained. I saw the picture and was appalled. I remained appalled even after a doctor’s examination had assured me that no internal organs had been shaken loose by its ridiculous soundwaves. (If you can’t be good, be loud, some say, and Close Encounters was very loud.) … Hollywood must deal with large audiences, most of whom are utterly unfamiliar with good science fiction. It has to bend to them, meet them at least half-way. Fully appreciating that, I could enjoy Planet of the Apes and Star Wars. Star Wars was entertainment for the masses and did not try to be anything more. Leave your sophistication at the door, get into the spirit, and you can have a fun ride. … Seeing a rotten picture for the special effects is like eating a tough steak for the smothered onions, or reading a bad book for the dirty parts. Optical wizardry is something a movie can do that a book can’t but it is no substitute for a story, for logic, for meaning. It is ornamentation, not substance. In fact, whenever a science fiction picture is praised overeffusively for its special effects, I know it’s a bad picture. Is that all they can find to talk about?”

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"Editorial: The Reluctant Critic", in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 6, (12 November 1978) https://archive.org/stream/Asimovs_v02n06_1978-11-12/
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“There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv I, Robot

“Runaround”, p. 41; see above for the Three Laws of Robotics, also drawn from this story
I, Robot (1950)

“At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.”

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Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 1 “Councilman” section 1, p. 4

“Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.”

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Forrás: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 11 “Bride and Groom”; in part II, “The Mule” originally published under the same title in Astounding (November-December 1945)

“I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.”

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"Academe and I" (May 1972), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 224
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“The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv Fact and Fancy

Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
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“There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 33
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“Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.”

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Part III, The Mayors, section 1; originally published as “Bridle and Saddle” in Astounding (June 1942)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“If an interaction is too weak to be detectable or to exert influence in any way, then by any operational definition, it doesn’t exist.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv The Gods Themselves

Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 257
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“There was no denying that he would always be conscious of the fact that an Earthman was an Earthman. He couldn’t help that. That was the result of a childhood immersed in an atmosphere of bigotry so complete that it was almost invisible, so entire that you accepted its axioms as second nature. Then you left it and saw it for what it was when you looked back.”

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Isaac Asimov könyv Pebble in the Sky

Pebble in the Sky, chapter 7 “Conversation with Madmen?”, p. 58
Pebble in the Sky (1950)

“To be sure, the Bible contains the direct words of God. How do we know? The Moral Majority says so. How do they know? They say they know and to doubt it makes you an agent of the Devil or, worse, a Lbr-l Dm-cr-t. And what does the Bible textbook say? Well, among other things it says the earth was created in 4004 BC (Not actually, but a Moral Majority type figured that out three and a half centuries ago, and his word is also accepted as inspired.) The sun was created three days later. The first male was molded out of dirt, and the first female was molded, some time later, out of his rib. As far as the end of the universe is concerned, the Book of Revelation (6:13-14) says: "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." … Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

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"The Blind Who Would Lead", essay in The Roving Mind (1983); as quoted in Canadian Atheists Newsletter (1994)
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“The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.”

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Statement of 1965, as quoted without citation of a specific work in Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited by Asimov and Jason A. Shulman, p. 233 https://archive.org/details/BookOfScienceAndNatureQuotations-IsaacAsimov
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