Isaac Asimov: Frases en inglés (página 12)

Isaac Asimov era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Los propios dioses

Section 1, Chapter 7, p. 56; the book is set in the year 2100.
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Pebble in the Sky

Fuente: Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 15 “The Odds That Vanished”, p. 136

“For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat’s are really deadly.”

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Part III, The Mayors, section 7
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.”

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Isaac Asimov libro I, Robot

“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 187
I, Robot (1950)

“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?”

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"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 -->
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“There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.”

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Isaac Asimov libro I, Robot

“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.”

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Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 1 “Councilman” section 1, p. 4

“Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.”

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Fuente: 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)

“I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.”

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"Academe and I" (May 1972), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 224
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“The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fact and Fancy

Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
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“There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 33
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“Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.”

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Part III, The Mayors, section 1; originally published as “Bridle and Saddle” in Astounding (June 1942)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“If an interaction is too weak to be detectable or to exert influence in any way, then by any operational definition, it doesn’t exist.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Los propios dioses

Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 257
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“There was no denying that he would always be conscious of the fact that an Earthman was an Earthman. He couldn’t help that. That was the result of a childhood immersed in an atmosphere of bigotry so complete that it was almost invisible, so entire that you accepted its axioms as second nature. Then you left it and saw it for what it was when you looked back.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Pebble in the Sky

Pebble in the Sky, chapter 7 “Conversation with Madmen?”, p. 58
Pebble in the Sky (1950)

“To be sure, the Bible contains the direct words of God. How do we know? The Moral Majority says so. How do they know? They say they know and to doubt it makes you an agent of the Devil or, worse, a Lbr-l Dm-cr-t. And what does the Bible textbook say? Well, among other things it says the earth was created in 4004 BC (Not actually, but a Moral Majority type figured that out three and a half centuries ago, and his word is also accepted as inspired.) The sun was created three days later. The first male was molded out of dirt, and the first female was molded, some time later, out of his rib. As far as the end of the universe is concerned, the Book of Revelation (6:13-14) says: "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." … Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

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"The Blind Who Would Lead", essay in The Roving Mind (1983); as quoted in Canadian Atheists Newsletter (1994)
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“The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.”

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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
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“I have always dealt with economic forces, rather than philosophic forces, but you can't split history into neat little non-overlapping divisions. For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society.”

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Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Prelude to Foundation (1988), Chapter 40, Dors Venabili to Hari Seldon

“Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.”

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Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”

“Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!”

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Asimov's Guide to Science (1972), p. 15
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“A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!”

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Isaac Asimov libro The Currents of Space

The Currents of Space (1952)
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