Dátum narodenia: 1920
Dátum úmrtia: 6. apríl 1992
Isaac Asimov bol veľmi úspešný a neobyčajne plodný americký spisovateľ a biochemik známy vďaka svojim sci-fi knihám a populárno-vedeckým prácam.
en: Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
z Free Inquiry, jar 1982
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en: Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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en: I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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en: The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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en: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
Časopis LIFE, január 1984
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en: There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
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en: Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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en: If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Varianta: Ak mám pravdu, (náboženskí fundamentalisti) nepôjdu do neba, lebo žiadneho neba niet. Ak majú pravdu oni, nepôjdu do neba, lebo sú pokrytci.
en: Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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en: I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
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— Isaac Asimov, kniha The Currents of Space
The Currents of Space (1952)
General sources
"My Own View" in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978) edited by Robert Holdstock; later published in Asimov on Science Fiction (1981)
General sources
![Phillip Leonian [1] from New York World-Telegram & Sun. [2], United States Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Call number: NYWTS - BIOG--Asimov, Isaac, Dr. <item> [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-115121](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac.Asimov01.jpg){kind=link}