Isaac Asimov: Frases en inglés (página 15)

Isaac Asimov era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“Private profit is often hidden under a careful coating of great patriotism.”

The Roman Republic (1966), p. 128
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“It is the nature of science that answers automatically pose new and more subtle questions.”

The Wellsprings of Life (1960), p. 141
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“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
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“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.”

Fuente: 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 libro The Currents of Space

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

Isaac Asimov libro In Memory Yet Green

In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 175
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“Scientific writing is abhorrently stylized and places a premium on poor quality.”

Isaac Asimov libro Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 82
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“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
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“This - this - was my life's work. My past - humanity's future. Foundation. So beatiful. So alive. And nothing can...Dors!”

Isaac Asimov libro Forward the Foundation

The Foundation series (1951–1993), Forward the Foundation (1993)
Fuente: 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 libro Fundación y Tierra

The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Earth (1986)
Fuente: 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 libro Second Foundation

Fuente: 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 libro Second Foundation

Fuente: 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 libro Second Foundation

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

“Finished products are for decadent minds.”

Isaac Asimov libro Second Foundation

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