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
An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)
“It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.”
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 15 “Gaia-S” section 2, p. 302
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 4 “The Emperor”
“He believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don’t believe in it at all.”
Part III, The Mayors, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Asimov Laughs Again (1992)
General sources
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 17 “Gaia” section 5, p. 363
As quoted in Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies (1984) edited by Danny Peary, p. 5
General sources
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 13 “Lieutenant and Clown”
Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)
General sources
“Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.”
Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
General sources
Section 1, Chapter 7, p. 56; the book is set in the year 2100.
The Gods Themselves (1972)
Quelle: Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 15 “The Odds That Vanished”, p. 136
Part III, The Mayors, section 7
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
"Editorial: The Reluctant Critic", in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 6, (12 November 1978) https://archive.org/stream/Asimovs_v02n06_1978-11-12/<!-- Asimovs_v02n06_1978-11-12_djvu.txt -->
General sources
“There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.”
“Runaround”, p. 41; see above for the Three Laws of Robotics, also drawn from this story
I, Robot (1950)
“At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.”
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 1 “Councilman” section 1, p. 4
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 11 “Bride and Groom”; in part II, “The Mule” originally published under the same title in Astounding (November-December 1945)
"Academe and I" (May 1972), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 224
General sources
“The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”
Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
General sources
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 33
General sources
“Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.”
Part III, The Mayors, section 1; originally published as “Bridle and Saddle” in Astounding (June 1942)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Pebble in the Sky, chapter 7 “Conversation with Madmen?”, p. 58
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
"The Blind Who Would Lead", essay in The Roving Mind (1983); as quoted in Canadian Atheists Newsletter (1994)
General sources
Statement of 1965, as quoted without citation of a specific work in Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited by Asimov and Jason A. Shulman, p. 233 https://archive.org/details/BookOfScienceAndNatureQuotations-IsaacAsimov
General sources
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Prelude to Foundation (1988), Chapter 40, Dors Venabili to Hari Seldon
Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”
Asimov's Guide to Science (1972), p. 15
General sources
“A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!”
The Currents of Space (1952)
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