Isaac Asimov: Frases en inglés

Isaac Asimov era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Los límites de la Fundación

Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 6 “Earth” section 1, p. 100
Fuente: Foundation's Edge

“A circle has no end.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Second Foundation

Second Foundation

“Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.”

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“There's soknowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.”

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“Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.”

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Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 12 “Agent” section 4, p. 226

“The spell of power never quite releases its hold.”

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Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 12 “Lord”

“We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.”

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Fuente: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 20 “Conclusion” section 1, p. 408

“I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn’t have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Los propios dioses

Section 2, Chapter 2b, p. 104
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.”

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Part IV, The Traders, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“[Writing] is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.”

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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990, p.6
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“Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.”

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"By Jove!" in View from a Height (1963); often misquoted as "Jupiter plus debris".
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“A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Runaround

"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)

“I’ve lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Los propios dioses

Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 250
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“Consider the most famous pure dystopian tale of modern times, 1984, by George Orwell (1903-1950), published in 1948 (the same year in which Walden Two was published). I consider it an abominably poor book. It made a big hit (in my opinion) only because it rode the tidal wave of cold war sentiment in the United States.”

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"Nowhere!" Asimov's Science Fiction (September 1983)
General sources

“To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Los propios dioses

Dedication, p. 5; this refers to the quotation of Friedrich Schiller from which Asimov derived the title of this novel: "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”

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Part III, The Mayors, section 3
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.”

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Isaac Asimov libro I, Robot

“Reason”, p. 52
I, Robot (1950)

“You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.”

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Isaac Asimov libro Los propios dioses

Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 244
The Gods Themselves (1972)