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“Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?”
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
“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.”
― Forward the Foundation
-I did nothing for you.”
-You loved me and your love made me--human.”
― Forward the Foundation
“the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. ”
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
“Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.”
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“Since emotions are few and reasons many, the behavior or a crowd can be
more easily predicted than the behavior of one person can. And that, in turn, means that if laws are to be developed that enable the current of history to be predicted, then one must deal with large populations, the larger the better. That might itself be the First Law of Psychohistory, the key to the study of Humanics. Yet.'
R. Giskard Reventlov”
― Robots and Empire
more easily predicted than the behavior of one person can. And that, in turn, means that if laws are to be developed that enable the current of history to be predicted, then one must deal with large populations, the larger the better. That might itself be the First Law of Psychohistory, the key to the study of Humanics. Yet.'
R. Giskard Reventlov”
― Robots and Empire
“He de decir, si usted no lo sabe por propia experiencia, que leer un buen libro, embebido en el interés de sus palabras y pensamientos, produce en algunas personas (en mí, por ejemplo) una increíble sensación de felicidad.”
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“Estamos tan rodeados de historias sobrenaturales, de la aceptación sin problemas de lo paranormal, de la amenaza de los distintos poderes que intentan con todas sus fuerzas convencernos de la existencia de lo sobrenatural, que hasta los más firmes podemos sentirnos desfallecer.”
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“Creo que Dios preferiría un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace más que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horribles, horribles, horribles.”
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“Cuando se fundó el Estado de Israel, en 1948, todos mis amigos judíos estaban felices; yo fui el aguafiestas. Les advertí: —Estamos construyendo un gueto nosotros mismos. Estaremos rodeados por decenas de millones de musulmanes que nunca perdonarán, nunca olvidarán y nunca desaparecerán. Estaba en lo cierto, sobre todo cuando resultó que los árabes estaban asentados en la mayor parte de los abastecimientos petrolíferos del mundo. Así que las naciones del mundo, que necesitaban el petróleo, pensaron que era diplomático ser pro-árabe. (Si el tema de las reservas petrolíferas se hubiese conocido antes, estoy convencido de que Israel no se habría creado.) Pero ¿no merecemos los judíos una patria? En realidad, creo que a ningún grupo humano le conviene pertenecer a una “patria” en el sentido habitual de la palabra. La Tierra no debería estar dividida en cientos de secciones diferentes, cada una habitada por un solo segmento autodefinido de la humanidad que considera que su propio bienestar y su propia “seguridad nacional” están por encima de cualquier otra consideración. Soy partidario de la diversidad cultural y me gustaría que cada grupo identificable valorara su patrimonio cultural. Por ejemplo, soy un patriota de Nueva York y si viviera en Los Ángeles me encantaría reunirme con otros neoyorquinos expatriados y cantar Give My Regards to Broadway. No obstante, este tipo de sentimientos deben ser culturales y benignos. Estoy en contra de ello si cada grupo desprecia a los demás y aspira a destruirlos. Estoy en contra de dar armas a cada pequeño grupo autodefinido con las que reforzar su propio orgullo y sus prejuicios. La Tierra se enfrenta en la actualidad a problemas medioambientales que amenazan con la inminente destrucción de la civilización y con el final del planeta como un lugar habitable. La humanidad no se pude permitir desperdiciar sus recursos financieros y emocionales en peleas interminables y sin sentido entre los diversos grupos. Debe haber un sentido de lo global en el que todo el mundo se una para resolver los problemas reales a los que nos enfrentamos todos. ¿Se puede hacer esto? La pregunta equivale a: ¿puede sobrevivir la humanidad? Por tanto, no soy sionista porque no creo en las naciones y porque los sionistas lo único que hacen es crear una nación más para dar lugar a más conflictos. Crean su nación para tener “derechos”, “exigencias” y “seguridad nacional” y para sentir que deben protegerla de sus vecinos. ¡No hay naciones! Sólo existe la humanidad. Y si no llegamos a entender esto pronto, las naciones desaparecerán, porque no existirá la humanidad.”
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“The common thread in Asimov's robot stories is a self-fulfilling prophecy. That being afraid of science and technology leads us to acting in ways that are detrimental to ourselves and society. Or, to indvertently hand over control to people who want to misuse it, simply by our refusal to understand it.
[James Portnow, Extra Credits. Asimov Summary]”
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[James Portnow, Extra Credits. Asimov Summary]”
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“Bogert chuckled nastily, 'And I’m the new director, be it understood. I’m very aware of that; don’t think I’m not. Damn your eyes, Lanning, I’m going to give the orders about here or there will be the sweetest mess that you’ve ever been in.”
― Liar!
― Liar!
“Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
“Nunca, en toda mi vida, ni siquiera por un momento, me he sentido tentado por ninguna religión de ningún tipo. El hecho es que no siento ningún vacío espiritual. Tengo mi filosofía de la vida, que no incluye ningún aspecto sobrenatural y que encuentro totalmente satisfactoria. En resumen, soy un racionalista y sólo creo lo que me dice la razón.”
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“En mi respuesta le decía: "Avram, tú y yo somos judíos que vivimos en un país que es no judío en un noventa y cinco por ciento y nos las arreglamos bastante bien. Me pregunto cómo nos desenvolveríamos, Avram, si fuéramos gentiles y viviéramos en un país con un noventa y cinco por ciento de judíos ortodoxos."
Memorias”
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Memorias”
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“Andrew thought that it was strange that humans would choose the day of coming forth from the womb as the significant thing to commemorate. He knew something of human biology, and it seemed to him that it would be much more important to focus on the moment of the actual creation of the organism, when the sperm cell entered the ovum and the process of cell division began. Surely that was the real point of origin of any person!
Certainly the new person was already alive - if not capable of independent functioning - during the nine months spent within the womb.”
― The Positronic Man
Certainly the new person was already alive - if not capable of independent functioning - during the nine months spent within the womb.”
― The Positronic Man
“It was odd how that last deed caught the imagination of the world. All that Andrew had done before had not swayed them. But he had finally accepted even death to be human, and the sacrifice was too great to be rejected.”
― The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
― The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
“Los postulados están establecidos por la suposición y reforzados por la fe. Nada en el Universo puede conmoverlos.”
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“Books, gentlemen, hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.
Halsted muttered, 'These days there's movies and TV.'
Manfred heard. He said, with a smile, 'I watch television also. Sometimes I will see a movie. Just because I appreciate a meal such as the one we have just had doesn't mean that I may not eat a hot dog now and then. But I don't confuse the two. No matter how splendid movies and television may seem, they are junk food for the mind, amusement for the illiterate, a bit of diversion for those who are momentarily in the mood for nothing more.”
― Puzzles of the Black Widowers
Halsted muttered, 'These days there's movies and TV.'
Manfred heard. He said, with a smile, 'I watch television also. Sometimes I will see a movie. Just because I appreciate a meal such as the one we have just had doesn't mean that I may not eat a hot dog now and then. But I don't confuse the two. No matter how splendid movies and television may seem, they are junk food for the mind, amusement for the illiterate, a bit of diversion for those who are momentarily in the mood for nothing more.”
― Puzzles of the Black Widowers
“În lipsa unui computer, o civilizaţie puternică poate deveni periculoasă, şi de aceea e mai bine să fie distrusă.”
― The Winds of Change and Other Stories
― The Winds of Change and Other Stories
“Un encadenamiento de razonamientosválidos sólo puede llevar a la determinación de la verdad.”
― I, Robot
― I, Robot
“I see into minds, you see', the robot continued, 'and you have no idea how complicated they are. I can’t begin to understand everything because my own mind has so little in common with them — but I try, and your novels help.”
― Liar!
― Liar!
“Some of the woman peered through the layer of doctorhood. [...] 'Am I a psychologist for nothing?”
― Liar!
― Liar!
“Yeah! Susie herself. That robot’s a mathematical wiz. He knows all about everything plus a bit on the side. He does triple integrals in his head and eats up tensor analysis for dessert.”
― Liar!
― Liar!
“He was still smiling as he closed the door behind himself, but what Herbie’s feelings were, there was no way of telling.”
― Liar!
― Liar!
“Right! Not that I particularly like having a robot tell me my job, nor that I think he can do it!”
― Liar!
― Liar!
“Bogert’s face was bloodless, 'He’s dead!'
'No!' Susan Calvin burst into body-racking gusts of wild laughter, 'not dead —merely insane. I confronted him with the insoluble dilemma, and he broke down. You can scrap him now—because he’ll never speak again.”
― Liar!
'No!' Susan Calvin burst into body-racking gusts of wild laughter, 'not dead —merely insane. I confronted him with the insoluble dilemma, and he broke down. You can scrap him now—because he’ll never speak again.”
― Liar!
“Science fiction is an existential metaphor. It allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said: "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.”
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