Isaac Asimov Berühmte Zitate
(Original engl.: "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" http://media.aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf, Newsweek (21 January 1980) Übersetzung: Grafite

„Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen.“
Tausendjahresplan
(Original engl.: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent") - Foundation, Granada Publishing Limited, ohne ISBN, S.58
Zitate über Leben von Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov Zitate und Sprüche
„Die Dankbarkeit ist am besten und effektivsten, wenn sie nicht in leeren Phrasen verdampft.“
aus Foundation and Empire, Übersetzung:Nino Barbieri
(Original engl.: " Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.") - Foundation and Empire, Granada Publishing Limited, ohne ISBN, S. 86
Quelle: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
Variante: Die richtig gelesene Bibel ist die mächtigste Kraft für den Atheismus, die wir uns vorstellen können.
aus Foundation, Übersetzung:Nino Barbieri
Original engl.: "Religion is one of the great civilizing influences of history, and in that respect, it's fulfilling." - Foundation, Granada Publishing Limited, ohne ISBN, S. 90
Isaac Asimov: Zitate auf Englisch
“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 11 “Sayshell” section 3, p. 205
Quelle: Foundation's Edge
Kontext: Pelorat sighed. “I will never understand people.”
“There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”
“It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!”
Quelle: Pebble in the Sky
“The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity”
Quelle: The End of Eternity
Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“… you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”
Quelle: I, Robot
“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”
Quelle: The Robots of Dawn
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Quelle: I, Robot (1950)
“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly”
Variante: It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Quelle: Foundation
"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
General sources
“Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Variante: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Quelle: Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5; This also appears three times in "Bridle and Saddle" which is titled "The Mayors" within Foundation. It is derived from the famous phrase by Samuel Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and from the words of Lady Anne Bellamy in H. Rider Haggard's Dawn, “I do not believe in violence; it is the last resource of fools.” Asimov is usually quoted simply with "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."