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„Najsmutnejší aspekt dnešného života je, že veda získava poznatky oveľa rýchlejšie, ako spoločnosť nadobúda múdrosť.“

en: The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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„Aj nepatrná myšlienka, ktorá je mylná, môže viesť k plodnému skúmaniu, ktoré môže nastoliť pravdy veľkej hodnoty.“

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

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„Násilie je posledné útočisko neschopných.“

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Salvor Hardin, Nadácia

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

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en: Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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„Ľudia svoju smrteľnosť tolerujú len preto, že platí všeobecne.“

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Isaac Asimov Citáty o živote

„Neverím v posmrtný život, a tak nemusím tráviť celý môj život v strachu pred peklom, alebo v ešte väčšom strachu pred nebom. Nech sú muky pekla akékoľvek, myslím že nuda v nebi by bola ešte horšia.“

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

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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.“

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en: Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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„Emocionálne som ateista. Nemám žiadne fakty, aby som dokázal, že Boh neexistuje, ale tak silne to tuším, že nechcem strácať čas.“

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

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

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

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en: Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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„Ak vedomosti môžu vytvárať problémy, nie je to ignorantstvo čo ich vie vyriešiť.“

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

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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.

„Najlepšie prístroj na odhaľovanie lží je žiarlivá žena.“

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„Nebojím sa počítačov. Bojím sa ich nedostatku.“

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en: I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
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„Myslím si, že desať mileniek je lepších, ako jedna manželka. Pretože som dobrý manžel, môžem iba snívať.“

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„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.“

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Isaac Asimov: Citáty v angličtine

“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?”

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"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

“Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located — so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.”

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Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”; in part II, “Search by the Foundation” originally published as “—And Now You Don’t” in Astounding (November and December 1949 and January 1950)

“Nonsense,” Weston denied, with an involuntary nervous shiver. “That’s completely ridiculous. We had a long discussion at the time we bought Robbie about the First Law of Robotics. You know that it is impossible for a robot to harm a human being; that long before enough can go wrong to alter that First Law, a robot would be completely inoperable. It’s a mathematical impossibility. Besides I have an engineer from U. S. Robots here twice a year to give the poor gadget a complete overhaul. Why, there’s no more chance of anything at all going wrong with Robbie than there is of you or I suddenly going looney—considerably less, in fact. Besides, how are you going to take him away from Gloria?”

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Isaac Asimov kniha I, Robot

“Robbie”, p. 17
I, Robot (1950)

“Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.”

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Zdroj: 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.”

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Isaac Asimov kniha Runaround

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

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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)

“When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.”

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Zdroj: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538

“It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.”

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"How Do People Get New Ideas?" (1959)
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“Asimov: Battlestar Galactica for instance, started off with twenty to thirty minutes of space battles which looked exactly like air battles in World War I. You could swear that the space ships were surrounded by air the way the maneuvered. One felt it was unworthy.
SWA Magazine: The Vipers in Battlestar Galactica look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future?
Asimov: It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell "whoa" and the airplane came to a halt in mid-air.”

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An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)

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

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As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
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“A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.”

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Isaac Asimov kniha Runaround

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

“The house was somehow very lonely at night and Dr. Darell found that the fate of the Galaxy made remarkably little difference while his daughter’s mad little life was in danger.”

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Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”

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

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Isaac Asimov kniha Pebble in the Sky

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

“[In response to this question by Bill Moyers: What do you see happening to the idea of dignity to human species if this population growth continues at its present rate? ] "It's going to destroy it all. I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up, you have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.”

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Interview by Bill Moyers on Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas (17 October 1988); transcript http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/print/pdfs/woi%20asimov1.pdf (page 6) - audio (20:12) http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/media_players/asimovwoi_audio.html <br class="br">General sources

““Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?”
Pelorat said, “If you list it like that—”
“List it any way you please,” said Trevize. “I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.””

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Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 14 “Forward!” section 1, p. 281

“Economics is on the side of humanity now.”

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Isaac Asimov kniha The Currents of Space

The Currents of Space (1952)
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“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.”

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Mother Earth News interview (1980)