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Isaac Asimov

Geburtstag: 2. Januar 1920
Todesdatum: 6. April 1992

Isaac Asimov war ein russisch-amerikanischer Biochemiker, Sachbuchautor und einer der bekanntesten sowie produktivsten Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller seiner Zeit.

Zitate Isaac Asimov

„Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen.“

— Isaac Asimov
Tausendjahresplan

„Religion ist eine der großen zivilisatorischen Einflüsse der Geschichte und in der Beziehung befriedigend.“

— Isaac Asimov
aus Foundation, Übersetzung:Nino Barbieri

Über Religion

„Die Dankbarkeit ist am besten und effektivsten, wenn sie nicht in leeren Phrasen verdampft.“

— Isaac Asimov
aus Foundation and Empire, Übersetzung:Nino Barbieri

„I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.“

— Isaac Asimov

„Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.“

— Isaac Asimov
Context: If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me a convert of mountain‐moving fervor and that I shall suddenly grow long earlocks and learn Hebrew and go about denouncing the heathen — you little know the effect of the Bible on me. Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. As quoted in Notes for a Memoir : On Isaac Asimov, Life, and Writing (2006) by Janet Jeppson Asimov, p. 58

„The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.“

— Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281

„Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.“

— Isaac Asimov, Foundation
Part IV, The Traders, section 1; originally published as “The Wedge” in Astounding (October 1944)

„In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.“

— Isaac Asimov

„If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.“

— Isaac Asimov

„The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."“

— Isaac Asimov
Context: There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." "A Cult of Ignorance", Newsweek (21 January 1980) http://media.aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf