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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

“You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.”

Isaac Asimov buch The Gentle Vultures

"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.”

Isaac Asimov buch I, Robot

“Liar!”, p. 89
I, Robot (1950)

“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

“Titles are an important part of a story and I take considerable care in choosing one. In fact, I cannot start a story until I have chosen a title.”

Isaac Asimov buch Banquets of the Black Widowers

Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 27
General sources

“Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.”

Isaac Asimov buch The Gods Themselves

Section 2 “...the gods themselves...”, Chapter 1b, p. 82
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“Why, Stephen, if I am right, it means that the Machine is conducting our future for us not only simply in direct answer to our direct questions, but in general answer to the world situation and to human psychology as a whole. And to know that may make us unhappy and may hurt our pride. The Machine cannot, must not, make us unhappy.
"Stephen, how do we know what the ultimate good of Humanity will entail? We haven't at our disposal the infinite factors that the Machine has at its! Perhaps, to give you a not unfamiliar example, our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed. Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization, with less culture and less people would be better. If so, the Machines must move in that direction, preferably without telling us, since in our ignorant prejudices we only know that what we are used to, is good—and we would then fight change. Or perhaps a complete urbanization, or a completely caste-ridden society, or complete anarchy, is the answer. We don't know. Only the Machines know, and they are going there and taking us with them."
"But you are telling me, Susan, that the 'Society for Humanity' is right; and that Mankind has lost its own say in its future."
"It never had any, really. It was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand—at the whims of climate, and the fortunes of war. Now the Machines understand them; and no one can stop them, since the Machines will deal with them as they are dealing with the Society,—having, as they do, the greatest of weapons at their disposal, the absolute control of our economy."
"How horrible!”

Isaac Asimov buch I, Robot

"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)

“Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.”

Isaac Asimov buch The Road to Infinity

The Road to Infinity (1979), p. 170
General sources

“All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary”

Isaac Asimov buch The Relativity of Wrong

"The Relativity of Wrong" (1988) - "Beginning with Bone" (May 1987)
General sources

“The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity.”

Isaac Asimov buch In Memory Yet Green

In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 461
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.”

Isaac Asimov buch In Memory Yet Green

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.”

Isaac Asimov buch I, Robot

“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

““That was the time to begin all-out preparations for war.”
“On the contrary. That was the time to begin all-out prevention of war.””

Part III, The Mayors, section 1
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
Asimov: To tell the truth, I don't think the odds are very good that we can solve our immediate problems. I think the chances that civilization will survive more than another 30 years—that it will still be flourishing in 2010—are less than 50 percent.
Plowboy: What sort of disaster do you foresee?
Asimov: I imagine that as population continues to increase—and as the available resources decrease—there will be less energy and food, so we'll all enter a stage of scrounging. The average person's only concerns will be where he or she can get the next meal, the next cigarette, the next means of transportation. In such a universal scramble, the Earth will be just plain desolated, because everyone will be striving merely to survive regardless of the cost to the environment. Put it this way: If I have to choose between saving myself and saving a tree, I'm going to choose me.
Terrorism will also become a way of life in a world marked by severe shortages. Finally, some government will be bound to decide that the only way to get what its people need is to destroy another nation and take its goods … by pushing the nuclear button.
And this absolute chaos is going to develop—even if nobody wants nuclear war and even if everybody sincerely wants peace and social justice—if the number of mouths to feed continues to grow. Nothing will be able to stand up against the pressure of the whole of humankind simply trying to stay alive!”

Mother Earth News interview (1980)

“The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.”

Isaac Asimov buch Fact and Fancy

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)

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