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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 is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.”

Quelle: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 22 “Death on Neotrantor”

“I fear my ignorance.”

Isaac Asimov buch The Gods Themselves

Section 3 “...contend in vain?”, Chapter 3 (p. 187)
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“The job of science will never be done, it will just sink deeper and deeper into never-ending complexity.”

"The Secrets of the Universe" (1989) (essay reprinted in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 168)
General sources

“Necessity makes a joke of civilization.”

In Joy Still Felt (1980), p. 124
General sources

“Certain success evicts one from the paradise of winning against the odds.”

Isaac Asimov buch In Memory Yet Green

In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 420
General sources

“There is less trouble and trauma involved in writing a new piece than in trying to salvage an unsatisfactory old one.”

Isaac Asimov buch In Memory Yet Green

In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 200
General sources

“Science Digest asked me to see the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and write an article for them on the science it contained. I saw the picture and was appalled. I remained appalled even after a doctor’s examination had assured me that no internal organs had been shaken loose by its ridiculous soundwaves. (If you can’t be good, be loud, some say, and Close Encounters was very loud.) … Hollywood must deal with large audiences, most of whom are utterly unfamiliar with good science fiction. It has to bend to them, meet them at least half-way. Fully appreciating that, I could enjoy Planet of the Apes and Star Wars.”

Star Wars was entertainment for the masses and did not try to be anything more. Leave your sophistication at the door, get into the spirit, and you can have a fun ride. … Seeing a rotten picture for the special effects is like eating a tough steak for the smothered onions, or reading a bad book for the dirty parts. Optical wizardry is something a movie can do that a book can’t but it is no substitute for a story, for logic, for meaning. It is ornamentation, not substance. In fact, whenever a science fiction picture is praised overeffusively for its special effects, I know it’s a bad picture. Is that all they can find to talk about?
"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/
General sources

“Religion is more conservative than any other aspect of human life.”

The Near East (1968), p. 14
General sources

“Well, it was healthy to miss once in a while. It kept self-confidence balanced at a point safely short of arrogance.”

Quelle: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 20 “Where?” (p. 166)

“At least try to see my motives. Granted that I was foolish—criminally foolish—can’t you understand? Can’t you try not to hate me?”

She said softly, “I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.”
Quelle: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 19 “Defeat!” (p. 163)

“Then why did you run? A man who runs needs no other accusation.”

Isaac Asimov buch The Currents of Space

“Is that so? Really?” cried Steen. “Well, I would run out of a burning building even if I had not set the fire myself.”
Quelle: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 16 “The Accused” (p. 163)

“You make interstellar politics sound a very dirty game.”

Isaac Asimov buch The Currents of Space

“It is, but disapproving of dirt doesn’t remove it.”
Quelle: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 14 “The Renegade” (p. 141)

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