Isaac Asimov: Frases en inglés (página 6)

Isaac Asimov era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?
A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.
Q. You are sure that your statement represents scientific truth?
A. I am.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación e Imperio

Fuente: Foundation and Empire

“Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.”

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Isaac Asimov libro I, Robot

Fuente: I, Robot

“Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
           
-I did nothing for you.”
           
-You loved me and your love made me--human.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Forward the Foundation

Fuente: Forward the Foundation

“Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”

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“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”

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Isaac Asimov libro I, Robot

Fuente: I, Robot

“… you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”

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Isaac Asimov libro I, Robot

Fuente: I, Robot

“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”

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Isaac Asimov libro The Robots of Dawn

Fuente: The Robots of Dawn

“The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación e Imperio

Fuente: Foundation and Empire

“In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.”

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Fuente: Nightfall One

“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

Fuente: Foundation

“Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Forward the Foundation

Fuente: Forward the Foundation

“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”

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Isaac Asimov libro I, Robot

“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Fuente: I, Robot (1950)

“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9

“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

Variante: It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Fuente: Foundation

“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

Fuente: Foundation

“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”

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"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
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“Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Las bóvedas de acero

Fuente: The Caves of Steel

“Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

Variante: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Fuente: 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."