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Isaac Asimov byl americký spisovatel a biochemik ruského původu. Napsal přes 300 vědeckých, vědecko-populárních a sci-fi knih. Získal celou řadu prestižních cen. Je autorem tří zákonů robotiky.

✵ 1920 – 6. duben 1992
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„Píši ze stejného důvodu jako dýchám — protože kdybych to nedělal, umřel bych.“

Originál: (en) I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Zdroj: [Davis, A.J., 2007, Writings of a Teenage Heart, AuthorHouse, 89, angličtina]

„Lidé věděli předem, že jednou bude člověk chodit po Měsíci. Ale nikoho nenapadlo, že miliarda lidí se na to bude dívat v televizi.“

Zdroj: [Sobotka, Petr, Isaac de Rivaz, Meteor o nebezpečném pečivu, magnetickém mozku a světélkujícím ptakopyskovi, http://dvojka.rozhlas.cz/meteor-o-nebezpecnem-pecivu-magnetickem-mozku-a-svetelkujicim-ptakopyskovi-8414888, Věda | Meteor, Český rozhlas Dvojka, Český rozhlas, 2021, leden, 30, 2021-04-16, čas 10 min : 34 sec, česky]

Isaac Asimov: Citáty anglicky

“No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth.”

Isaac Asimov kniha The Currents of Space

Zdroj: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 11 “The Captain” (p. 114)

“Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?”

Isaac Asimov kniha Foundation’s Edge

Pelorat said, “If you list it like that—”
“List it any way you please,” said Trevize. “I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.”
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 14 “Forward!” section 1, p. 281

“[W]hen one plays for top prizes one must be prepared to pay top stakes.”

The Roman Empire (1967), p. 125
General sources

“Private profit is often hidden under a careful coating of great patriotism.”

The Roman Republic (1966), p. 128
General sources

“It is the nature of science that answers automatically pose new and more subtle questions.”

The Wellsprings of Life (1960), p. 141
General sources

“Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with.”

"The World of 1990" in The Diners' Club Magazine, January 1965
General sources

“The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight.”

Zdroj: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 3 “Chance and the Wrist Watch” (p. 30)

“Truth is a discredited commodity among diplomats.”

Isaac Asimov kniha The Currents of Space

Zdroj: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 6 “The Ambassador” (p. 64)

“Ideas are cheap. It's only what you do with them that counts.”

"The Secrets of the Universe" (1989) (essay reprinted in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 167)
General sources

“It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong.”

Isaac Asimov kniha In Memory Yet Green

In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 175
General sources

“Scientific writing is abhorrently stylized and places a premium on poor quality.”

Isaac Asimov kniha Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 82
General sources

“Ten years on the moon could tell us more about the universe than a thousand years on the earth might be able to.”

What Can We Expect of the Moon?" in The American Legion Magazine, March 1965
General sources

“This - this - was my life's work. My past - humanity's future. Foundation. So beatiful. So alive. And nothing can...Dors!”

Isaac Asimov kniha Forward the Foundation

The Foundation series (1951–1993), Forward the Foundation (1993)
Zdroj: Part 5 "Epilogue", Hari Seldon's last words

“Old memories - really old - are almost all in the mountain roots where it takes time to dig them out.”

Isaac Asimov kniha Foundation and Earth

The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Earth (1986)
Zdroj: Part 1 "Gaia", Chapter 1 "The Search Begins" section 4, p. 19

“To us, all life is a series of accidents to be met with improvisations. To them, all life is purposive and should be met with precalculation.”

Isaac Asimov kniha Second Foundation

Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 16 "Beginning of War"

“One should cultivate an innocence, an awareness of self, and an unselfconsciousness of self which leaves one nothing to hide.”

Isaac Asimov kniha Second Foundation

Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 "Seldon's Plan"

“Your emotions are, of course, only the children of your background and are not to be condemned - merely changed.”

Isaac Asimov kniha Second Foundation

Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953)

“Finished products are for decadent minds.”

Isaac Asimov kniha Second Foundation

Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953)

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