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 Dangerous Myth of Creationism" in Penthouse (January 1982); reprinted as Ch. 2 : "Creationism and the Schools" in The Roving Mind (1983), p. 16
General sources
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”; in part II, “Search by the Foundation” originally published as “—And Now You Don’t” in Astounding (November and December 1949 and January 1950)
“Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.”
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 1 “Two Men and the Mule”; in part I, “Search by the Mule” originally published as “Now You See It—” in Astounding (January 1948)
“A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
Variante: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 2; originally published as “The Big and the Little” in Astounding (August 1944)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.”
Quelle: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538
"How Do People Get New Ideas?" (1959)
General sources
An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)
As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
General sources
"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”
Pebble in the Sky, chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
Interview by Bill Moyers on Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas (17 October 1988); transcript http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/print/pdfs/woi%20asimov1.pdf (page 6) - audio (20:12) http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/media_players/asimovwoi_audio.html
General sources
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 14 “Forward!” section 1, p. 281
“Economics is on the side of humanity now.”
The Currents of Space (1952)
General sources
Mother Earth News interview (1980)
Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“Hypocrisy is a universal phenomenon. It ends with death, but not before.”
"By the Numbers" (May 1973), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 188
General sources
Interview http://americanindian.net/asimov.html in Southwest Airlines Magazine 1979)
General sources
Part IV, The Traders, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.”
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 18
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“The foundation of all technology is fire.”
Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 11
General sources
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 134
General sources
Before the Golden Age (1974), Vol. 1, p. 5 of the 1975 Orbit edition
General sources
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 12 “Captain and Mayor”
"The Three Numbers" in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September 1974); reprinted in More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)
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Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 132
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Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990), pp. 74-75
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“It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.”
Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 4
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)