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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

Quelle: I, Robot

Second Foundation

Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 12 “Agent” section 4, p. 226

Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 12 “Lord”

Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 20 “Conclusion” section 1, p. 408

Section 2, Chapter 2b, p. 104
The Gods Themselves (1972)

Part IV, The Traders, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990, p.6
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"By Jove!" in View from a Height (1963); often misquoted as "Jupiter plus debris".
General sources

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

Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 250
The Gods Themselves (1972)

"Nowhere!" Asimov's Science Fiction (September 1983)
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Dedication, p. 5; this refers to the quotation of Friedrich Schiller from which Asimov derived the title of this novel: "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
The Gods Themselves (1972)

Part III, The Mayors, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“Reason”, p. 52
I, Robot (1950)

Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 244
The Gods Themselves (1972)

The Last Question (1956)

The Stars in Their Courses (1974), p. 36
General sources

Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 19 “Decision” section 7, p. 404

Section 2, Chapter 2a, p. 93
The Gods Themselves (1972)

Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 49; comparable to "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." — E. B. White, in "Some Remarks on Humor," preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)
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Mother Earth News interview (1980)

Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 226
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Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 4 “The Emperor; in part I, “The General” originally published as “Dead Hand” in Astounding (April 1945)

Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
All page numbers from the 1964 Bantam Pathfinder mass market paperback edition, 6th printing
Pebble in the Sky (1950)