Isaac Asimov: Frases en inglés
Isaac Asimov era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.Isaac Asimov libro Fundación
Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
Isaac Asimov libro Fundación e Imperio
Fuente: Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov libro Forward the Foundation
Fuente: Forward the Foundation
“… you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”
Isaac Asimov libro I, Robot
Fuente: I, Robot
“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”
Isaac Asimov libro The Robots of Dawn
Fuente: The Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov libro Forward the Foundation
Fuente: Forward the Foundation
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
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.”
Isaac Asimov libro Fundación
Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9
"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
General sources
Isaac Asimov libro Las bóvedas de acero
Fuente: The Caves of Steel
“Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
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."