The Stars, Like Dust Quotes

“The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“Do you know what it is to play a part? To split your personality deliberately for twenty-four hours a day? Even when with friends? Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently? To be a dilettante? To be eternally amused? To be of no account? To be so effete and faintly ridiculous that you have convinced all who know you of your own worthlessness? All so that your life may be safe even though it means it has become barely worth living. But even so, once in a while I can fight them.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“Being helpless is one of the things that isn’t altogether amusing." - Gilbert”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“In fact, it was part of the Tyrannian military tradition that a little discomfort on the part of the soldier was good for discipline.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“Yok olmaktan kurtulanların pek azını teşkil eden bu edebiyat, beni kendisine aşık etti. Bizim dışa dönük dünyamızın tam aksine bu eserlerde içe dönük bir şeyler var.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“It is a short-term investment on their part, because eventually we’ll become unprofitable as we become impoverished.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“Read your history, young man. All governments kill as part of the nature of things.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“silicon tetrafluoride”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“He actually found himself hungering for Jonti’s presence. The man was at least master of events. He had known what to do; he had known what Biron was to do; he had made Biron do it.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“The stars, like dust, encircle me In living mists of light; And all of space I seem to see In one vast burst of sight.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“El salto es exactamente lo que su nombre indica. En la misma estructura del espacio tiempo es imposible viajar más rápidamente que la luz. Es una ley natural que fue descubierta quizá por uno de los antiguos, el tradicional Einstein, a quien se atribuyen demasiadas cosas. Y, como es natural, incluso a la velocidad de la luz se tardarían años, de tiempo en reposo, en llegar a las estrellas. Por ello salimos de la estructura del espacio tiempo para penetrar en el poco conocido dominio del hiperespacio, donde distancia y tiempo carecen de sentido. Es algo así como atravesar un delgado istmo para pasar de un océano a otro, en lugar de permanecer en el mar y rodear un continente para recorrer la misma distancia. Naturalmente, se requiere una gran cantidad de energía para entrar en este "espacio dentro del espacio", como algunos lo llaman, así como muchos y complicados cálculos para asegurar nuevamente la entrada en el espacio-tiempo, en el punto adecuado. El resultado del consumo de tal energía e inteligencia hace posible atravesar distancias inmensas en un tiempo cero. Sólo gracias al salto son posibles los viajes interestelares.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“Öylesine gülünç olacaksınız ki herkes bir hiç olduğunuza inanacak. Bunun da tek amacı hayatınızı korumak... Gerçekten yaşanmaya değer olup olmadığı şüpheli olan hayatınızı...”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

“Gecenin bastırması, kökleri insanlık tarihinin başlarına kadar uzanan büyük bir psikolojik huzursuzluk yaratır. Gece daima bir güvensizlik ve korku zamanıdır ve cesaret güneşle birlikte batıp gitmiştir.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust