Isaac Asimov: Frases en inglés

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.”

Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

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

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

Isaac Asimov libro The Robots of Dawn

Fuente: The Robots of Dawn

“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

“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.”

Isaac Asimov libro Fundación

Fuente: Foundation

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

Isaac Asimov

"How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
General sources

“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."