en: The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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„Správne čítaná Biblia je najmocnejšou silou pre ateizmus, akú si vieme predstaviť.“
en: Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Isaac Asimov Citáty o živote
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: 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
Potvrdené výroky
„Život je šťastný. Smrť je pokojná. Je to prechod, ktorý je nepríjemný.“
en: Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Isaac Asimov citáty a výroky
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: 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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„Písanie je pre mňa jednoducho myslenie cez moje prsty.“
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.
„Nebojím sa počítačov. Bojím sa ich nedostatku.“
en: I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
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Isaac Asimov: Citáty v angličtine
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Foundation’s Edge
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 6 “Earth” section 1, p. 100
Zdroj: Foundation's Edge
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 12 “Agent” section 4, p. 226
“The spell of power never quite releases its hold.”
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 12 “Lord”
“We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.”
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 20 “Conclusion” section 1, p. 408
Part IV, The Traders, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990, p.6
General sources
"By Jove!" in View from a Height (1963); often misquoted as "Jupiter plus debris".
General sources
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Runaround
"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
"Nowhere!" Asimov's Science Fiction (September 1983)
General sources
“To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.”
Isaac Asimov
kniha
The Gods Themselves
Dedication, p. 5; this refers to the quotation of Friedrich Schiller from which Asimov derived the title of this novel: "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
The Gods Themselves (1972)
“Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”
Part III, The Mayors, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.”
Isaac Asimov
kniha
I, Robot
“Reason”, p. 52
I, Robot (1950)
“How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?”
Isaac Asimov
kniha
The Last Question
The Last Question (1956)
The Stars in Their Courses (1974), p. 36
General sources
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 19 “Decision” section 7, p. 404
“I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.”
Isaac Asimov
kniha
The Gods Themselves
Section 2, Chapter 2a, p. 93
The Gods Themselves (1972)
“Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.”
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Banquets of the Black Widowers
Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 49; comparable to "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." — E. B. White, in "Some Remarks on Humor," preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)
General sources
Mother Earth News interview (1980)
“If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.”
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Asimov's Chronology of the World
Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 226
General sources
Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 4 “The Emperor; in part I, “The General” originally published as “Dead Hand” in Astounding (April 1945)
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
All page numbers from the 1964 Bantam Pathfinder mass market paperback edition, 6th printing
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
