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(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

Tausendjahresplan
(Original engl.: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent") - Foundation, Granada Publishing Limited, ohne ISBN, S.58

Quelle: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

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

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

Variante: I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

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.”

Quelle: I, Robot

Quelle: I. Asimov

Quelle: Pebble in the Sky

Quelle: The Caves of Steel

Quelle: The End of Eternity

Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

Quelle: Foundation and Empire

Quelle: I, Robot

Quelle: Forward the Foundation

Quelle: I, Robot

Quelle: I, Robot

Quelle: The Robots of Dawn

Quelle: Foundation and Empire

Quelle: Nightfall One

Quelle: Foundation

Quelle: Forward the Foundation

“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Quelle: I, Robot (1950)

Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9

Quelle: Foundation

"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
General sources

Quelle: The Caves of Steel

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."