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

✵ 1920 – 6. April 1992
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Isaac Asimov Berühmte Zitate

„Es existiert ein Kult der Ignoranz in den USA und das war schon immer so. Die Bedrohung durch den Anti-Intellektualismus war eine Konstante, die sich durch unser politisches und kulturelles Leben zieht, genährt durch die falsche Annahme, dass Demokratie bedeutet: "Meine Ignoranz ist genauso viel wert wie Dein Wissen.“

(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

Isaac Asimov zitat: „Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen.“

„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

„Die richtig gelesene Bibel ist die mächtigste Kraft für den Atheismus, die wir uns vorstellen können.“

Variante: Die richtig gelesene Bibel ist die mächtigste Kraft für den Atheismus, die wir uns vorstellen können.

Diese Übersetzung wartet auf eine Überprüfung. Ist es korrekt?

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

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

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

Isaac Asimov buch Foundation’s Edge

Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 6 “Earth” section 1, p. 100
Quelle: Foundation's Edge

“A circle has no end.”

Isaac Asimov buch Second Foundation

Second Foundation

“Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.”

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

“[Writing] is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.”

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990, p.6
General sources

“A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.”

Isaac Asimov buch Runaround

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

“To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.”

Isaac Asimov buch The Gods Themselves

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)

“You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.”

Isaac Asimov buch The Gods Themselves

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

“How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?”

Isaac Asimov buch The Last Question

The Last Question (1956)

“It is better to go to defeat with free will than to live in a meaningless security as a cog in a machine.”

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.”

Isaac Asimov buch The Gods Themselves

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.”

Isaac Asimov buch Banquets of the Black Widowers

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

“If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.”

Isaac Asimov buch Asimov's Chronology of the World

Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 226
General sources

“He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.”

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)

“To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.”

Isaac Asimov buch Pebble in the Sky

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)

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