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
"The Gentle Vultures" in Super-Science Fiction (December 1957)
General sources
“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”
“Liar!”, p. 89
I, Robot (1950)
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 20 “Conclusion” section 4, p. 420
“I recognize the necessity of animal experiments with my mind but not with my heart.”
"Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat" (August 1972), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 153
General sources
“It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word “intuition.””
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 18 “Collision” section 4, p. 377
Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 27
General sources
Section 2 “...the gods themselves...”, Chapter 1b, p. 82
The Gods Themselves (1972)
"Perhaps how wonderful! Think, that for all time, all conflicts are finally evitable. Only the Machines, from now on, are inevitable!"
“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 192
I, Robot (1950)
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 4
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.”
The Road to Infinity (1979), p. 170
General sources
“All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary”
"The Relativity of Wrong" (1988) - "Beginning with Bone" (May 1987)
General sources
“There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story.”
Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
General sources
“The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity.”
In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 461
General sources
Mother Earth News interview (1980)
"Science Fiction, 1938" Nebula Winners 14 (1980) edited by Frederick J. Pohl, p. 97
General sources
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright (1978), p. 235
General sources
“I suppose he’s entitled to his opinion, but I don’t suppose it very hard.”
“Seven Steps to Grand Master” in Nebula Awards 22 (1988), edited by George Zebrowski
General sources
“I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.”
In Memory Yet Green (Avon Books, 1979), p. 18
General sources
“He is energetic only in evading responsibility.”
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 2
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.”
“Catch That Rabbit”, p. 71
I, Robot (1950)
“All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.”
"Lost in Non-Translation" (1989), in Magic (Voyager, 1997) p. 270
General sources
Part III, The Mayors, section 1
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
"By the Numbers" (May 1973), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 190
General sources
Mother Earth News interview (1980)
Quelle: The Roving Mind (1983), Ch. 25
“The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.”
Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
General sources
“An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.”
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 13
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)