Isaac Asimov: Frases en inglés

Isaac Asimov era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

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&quot;The “Threat” of Creationism&quot; http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/azimov_creationism.html in New York Times Magazine (14 June 1981)&lt;!-- reprinted Science and Creationism (1984) edited by M. F. Ashley Montagu, p. 184 --&gt; <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Contexto: There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

“I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.”

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“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Pebble in the Sky

Fuente: Pebble in the Sky

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”

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“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”

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“My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job
that he isn't worth discussing.”

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“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Pebble in the Sky

Fuente: Pebble in the Sky

“The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Los propios dioses

Section 3, Chapter 10, p. 236
The Gods Themselves (1972)

““You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.”
“Then let’s get at those postulates in a hurry. The storm’s due tomorrow.”
Powell sighed wearily. “That’s where everything falls down. Postulates are based on assumptions and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. I’m going to bed.””

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Isaac Asimov libro I, Robot

Fuente: I, Robot (1950), “Reason”, p. 63

“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

Part III, The Mayors, section 2
Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.”

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“There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.”

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“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

Fuente: Foundation

“We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Las bóvedas de acero

Fuente: The Caves of Steel

“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”

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As quoted in Philosophy on the Go (2007) by Joey Green, p. 222
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