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
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„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
"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
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)
“Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.”
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.”
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.
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.”
Zdroj: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538
"How Do People Get New Ideas?" (1959)
General sources
An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)
As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
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)
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky, chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
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
General sources
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.”
Isaac Asimov
kniha
The Currents of Space
The Currents of Space (1952)
General sources
Mother Earth News interview (1980)
Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“Hypocrisy is a universal phenomenon. It ends with death, but not before.”
"By the Numbers" (May 1973), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 188
General sources
Interview http://americanindian.net/asimov.html in Southwest Airlines Magazine 1979)
General sources
Part IV, The Traders, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.”
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 18
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“The foundation of all technology is fire.”
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Asimov's Chronology of the World
Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 11
General sources
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 134
General sources
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Before the Golden Age
Before the Golden Age (1974), Vol. 1, p. 5 of the 1975 Orbit edition
General sources
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 12 “Captain and Mayor”
"The Three Numbers" in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September 1974); reprinted in More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)
General sources
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Puzzles of the Black Widowers
Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 132
General sources
Isaac Asimov
kniha
Puzzles of the Black Widowers
Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990), pp. 74-75
General sources
“It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.”
Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 4
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
