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
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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
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 6 “Earth” section 1, p. 100
Quelle: Foundation's Edge
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 12 “Agent” section 4, p. 226
“The spell of power never quite releases its hold.”
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 12 “Lord”
“We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.”
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 20 “Conclusion” section 1, p. 408
Part IV, The Traders, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990, p.6
General sources
"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)
"Nowhere!" Asimov's Science Fiction (September 1983)
General sources
“To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.”
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)
“Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”
Part III, The Mayors, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.”
“Reason”, p. 52
I, Robot (1950)
“How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?”
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
“I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.”
Section 2, Chapter 2a, p. 93
The Gods Themselves (1972)
“Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.”
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)
General sources
Mother Earth News interview (1980)
“If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.”
Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 226
General sources
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)