Isaac Asimov citáty

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„Aj nepatrná myšlienka, ktorá je mylná, môže viesť k plodnému skúmaniu, ktoré môže nastoliť pravdy veľkej hodnoty.“

„Rozlišujeme pitie a pijanstvo. K druhému sa uchyľujeme len vtedy, keď ťažoba života láme nám chrbticu.“

„Násilie je posledné útočisko neschopných.“

„Správne čítaná Biblia je najmocnejšou silou pre ateizmus, akú si vieme predstaviť.“

„Ľudia svoju smrteľnosť tolerujú len preto, že platí všeobecne.“

„Keby mi doktor povedal, že mám len šesť minút života, nepremýšlal by som. Písal by som o trochu rýchlejšie.“

„Život je šťastný. Smrť je pokojná. Je to prechod, ktorý je nepríjemný.“

„Nie je nič desivé na nekonečnom bezsennom spánku. Určite je to lepšie ako nekonečné muky v pekle a nekonečná nuda v nebi.“

„Pevne verím, že sebavzdelávanie je jediným druhom vzdelávania, aké existuje.“

„Písanie je pre mňa jednoducho myslenie cez moje prsty.“

„Ak vedomosti môžu vytvárať problémy, nie je to ignorantstvo čo ich vie vyriešiť.“

„Ak mám pravdu, (náboženskí fundamentalisti) nepôjdu do neba, lebo žiadneho neba niet. Ak majú pravdu oni, nepôjdu do neba, lebo sú pokrytci.“

„Najlepšie prístroj na odhaľovanie lží je žiarlivá žena.“

„Nebojím sa počítačov. Bojím sa ich nedostatku.“

„Myslím si, že desať mileniek je lepších, ako jedna manželka. Pretože som dobrý manžel, môžem iba snívať.“

„Tri základné zákony robotiky. Po prvé, robot nesmie zraniť ľudskú bytosť alebo dovoliť, aby sa jej v dôsledku nečinnosti ublížilo. Po druhé, robot musí poslúchať príkazy ľudských bytostí, okrem prípadov, keď by takéto príkazy boli v rozpore s prvým zákonom. Po tretie, robot musí chrániť svoju vlastnú existenciu, pokiaľ takáto ochrana nie je v rozpore s prvým a druhým zákonom.“

“You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”

“Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

“It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.”

“Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.”

“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”

“It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!”

“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”

“The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity”

“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”

“Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?
A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
Q. You are sure that your statement represents scientific truth?
A. I am.”

“The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.”

“Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.”

“Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
           
-I did nothing for you.”
           
-You loved me and your love made me--human.”

“Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”

“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”

“… you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”

“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”

“The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.”

“In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.”

“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”

“Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.”

“Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”

“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”

“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”

“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly”

“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.”

“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”

“Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.”

“Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”