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„Mám pocit, Golane, že civilizační pokrok není nic jiného než čím dál větší omezování soukromí.“
Janov Pelorat, Na hranicích nadace, 1982
„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]
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]
Zdroj: [Garrod, Victor, 2010, Did God Screw Up?, lulu.com, 124, https://books.google.cz/books?id=qVLRAQAAQBAJ&, 978-0-557-46418-0]
Isaac Asimov: Citáty anglicky
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
Varianta: I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”
Isaac Asimov kniha Second Foundation
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”
Isaac Asimov kniha Foundation’s Edge
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 11 “Sayshell” section 3, p. 205
Zdroj: Foundation's Edge
Kontext: Pelorat sighed. “I will never understand people.”
“There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”
“It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!”
Isaac Asimov kniha Pebble in the Sky
Zdroj: Pebble in the Sky
Isaac Asimov kniha The Caves of Steel
Zdroj: The Caves of Steel
“The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity”
Isaac Asimov The End of Eternity
Zdroj: The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov kniha Nadace
Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Isaac Asimov kniha Foundation and Empire
Zdroj: Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov kniha Forward the Foundation
Zdroj: Forward the Foundation
“… you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”
Isaac Asimov kniha I, Robot
Zdroj: I, Robot
“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”
Isaac Asimov kniha The Robots of Dawn
Zdroj: The Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov kniha Forward the Foundation
Zdroj: Forward the Foundation
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
Isaac Asimov kniha I, Robot
“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Zdroj: I, Robot (1950)
“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”
Isaac Asimov kniha Nadace
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9
"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
General sources
“Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Isaac Asimov kniha Nadace
Varianta: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Zdroj: Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5; This also appears three times in "Bridle and Saddle" which is titled "The Mayors" within Foundation. It is derived from the famous phrase by Samuel Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and from the words of Lady Anne Bellamy in H. Rider Haggard's Dawn, “I do not believe in violence; it is the last resource of fools.” Asimov is usually quoted simply with "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
