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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
Isaac Asimov kniha Foundation’s Edge
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 6 “Earth” section 1, p. 100
Zdroj: Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov kniha Second Foundation
Second Foundation
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 12 “Agent” section 4, p. 226
“The spell of power never quite releases its hold.”
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 12 “Lord”
“We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.”
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 20 “Conclusion” section 1, p. 408
Isaac Asimov kniha The Gods Themselves
Section 2, Chapter 2b, p. 104
The Gods Themselves (1972)
Part IV, The Traders, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990, p.6
General sources
"By Jove!" in View from a Height (1963); often misquoted as "Jupiter plus debris".
General sources
Isaac Asimov kniha Runaround
"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
Isaac Asimov kniha The Gods Themselves
Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 250
The Gods Themselves (1972)
"Nowhere!" Asimov's Science Fiction (September 1983)
General sources
“To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.”
Isaac Asimov kniha The Gods Themselves
Dedication, p. 5; this refers to the quotation of Friedrich Schiller from which Asimov derived the title of this novel: "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
The Gods Themselves (1972)
“Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”
Part III, The Mayors, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.”
Isaac Asimov kniha I, Robot
“Reason”, p. 52
I, Robot (1950)
Isaac Asimov kniha The Gods Themselves
Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 244
The Gods Themselves (1972)
“How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?”
Isaac Asimov kniha The Last Question
The Last Question (1956)
The Stars in Their Courses (1974), p. 36
General sources
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 19 “Decision” section 7, p. 404
“I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.”
Isaac Asimov kniha The Gods Themselves
Section 2, Chapter 2a, p. 93
The Gods Themselves (1972)
“Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.”
Isaac Asimov kniha Banquets of the Black Widowers
Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 49; comparable to "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." — E. B. White, in "Some Remarks on Humor," preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)
General sources
Mother Earth News interview (1980)
“If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.”
Isaac Asimov kniha Asimov's Chronology of the World
Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991), p. 226
General sources
Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Zdroj: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 4 “The Emperor; in part I, “The General” originally published as “Dead Hand” in Astounding (April 1945)
Isaac Asimov kniha Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
All page numbers from the 1964 Bantam Pathfinder mass market paperback edition, 6th printing
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
