Frases de Isaac Asimov (343 citações, página 6)

Isaac Asimov: 343 citações51 Curtidas

Isaac Asimov Frases famosas

“A violência é o último refúgio do incompetente.”

Variante: A agressão é o último refúgio do incompetente.

“Examinem alguns fragmentos de pseudociência e encontrarão um manto de proteção, um polegar para chupar, algo a que se agarrar. E o que nós oferecemos em troca? A incerteza, a insegurança!”

Isaac Asimov

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What have we to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!
Past, present, and future - página 65, Isaac Asimov - Prometheus Books, 1987, ISBN 0879753935, 9780879753931 - 374 páginas

“O aspecto mais triste da vida actual é que a ciência ganha em conhecimento mais rapidamente que a sociedade em sabedoria.”

Isaac Asimov

“Quem tiver talento, obterá o êxito na medida que lhe corresponda. Porém, apenas se persistir naquilo que faz.”

Isaac Asimov

“Na vida, ao contrário do xadrez, o jogo continua depois do xeque-mate.”

Isaac Asimov

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Fantastic voyage II: destination brain: Volume 2 - página 275, Isaac Asimov - Grafton, 1988, ISBN 0586200258, 9780586200254 - 480 páginas

“Nunca deixe o seu sentido moral impedi-lo de fazer o que está certo.”

Isaac Asimov Foundation Trilogy

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction - página 135, Doubleday science fiction, The Foundation Trilogy: Three Classics of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Foundation series, Isaac Asimov, Editora Doubleday, 1951, 695 páginas
Variante: Nunca deixe seu senso moral impedir você de fazer o que é certo!

Citações de vida de Isaac Asimov

“Não acredito em vida após a morte, por isso não preciso passar toda minha vida temendo o inferno, ou temendo o céu mais ainda. Quaisquer que sejam as torturas do inferno, penso que a chatice do céu seria ainda pior.”

Isaac Asimov

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
citado em "Philosophy on the Go" - Página 222, Joey Green - Running Press, 2007, ISBN 0762428589, 9780762428588 - 272 páginas
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“A vida é agradavel. A morte é tranquila. O mau é a transição.”

Isaac Asimov

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
citado em "Digital video transition analysis and detection" - Página 33, Wei Jyh Heng, King N. Ngan - World Scientific, 2002, ISBN 9812381856, 9789812381859 - 190 páginas
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“A vida é uma viagem, mas não se aflijam, no fim há sítio para estacionar.”

Isaac Asimov

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.
citado em "Notes for a memoir: on Isaac Asimov, life, and writing" - página 35, Janet Asimov - Prometheus Books, 2006, ISBN 1591024056, 9781591024057 - 207 páginas
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“A vida é jovial. A morte é a calma. É a transição entre uma e a outra que nos cria problemas.”

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Isaac Asimov frases e citações

“Apenas uma guerra é permitida à espécie humana: a guerra contra a extinção.”

Isaac Asimov

There is only one war that the human species can now afford to fight and that is the war against extinction.
Life and time - página 245, Isaac Asimov - Doubleday, 1978, ISBN 0385146450, 9780385146456 - 273 páginas

“Se você tivesse nascido numa cela e crescido num corredor, trabalhando num cubículo, com férias numa varanda repleta de gente, ao sair para o ar livre, sem nada além do céu sobre si, talvez lhe desse um ataque de nervos.”

Isaac Asimov livro Foundation

Foundation

“O preço da liberdade é a indiferença - e não deixe ninguém lhe dizer o contrário, o universo é um lugar extremamente indiferente.”

Isaac Asimov

The price of freedom is indifference — and don't let anybody tell you otherwise, the universe is an extremely indifferent place.
Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazine: Volume 16,Edições 4-7 - página 48, Isaac Asimov - Davis Publications, 1992

“A liberdade não tem preço, a mera possibilidade de obtê-la já vale a pena.”

Isaac Asimov

citado em O Homem Bicentenário

“Inteligências exteriores, ao explorar o Sistema Solar com verdadeira imparcialidade, muito provavelmente introduziriam o Sol nos seus ficheiros assim: Estrela X, classe espectral G0, 4 planetas e detritos.”

Isaac Asimov

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.
View from a Height - página 227, Doubleday, 1963, 252 páginas

“Não há crença, por mais louca que seja, que não junte os seus fiéis seguidores que hão-de defendê-la até á morte.”

Isaac Asimov

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
The stars in their courses - página 36, Isaac Asimov - White Lion, 1974, ISBN 085617145X, 9780856171451 - 199 páginas

“Não é tanto por eu estar confiante que os cientistas têm razão, mas mais por estar confiante que os que não-cientistas estão errados.”

Isaac Asimov

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
Quasar, quasar, burning bright - página 235, Isaac Asimov - Doubleday, 1978, ISBN 0385134649, 9780385134644 - 240 páginas

“Se o conhecimento traz problemas, não é a ignorância que os resolve.”

Isaac Asimov

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Asimov's guide to science - página 15, Isaac Asimov - Basic Books, 1972 - 945 páginas
Variante: Se o conhecimento pode criar problemas, não será através da ignorância que os resolveremos.

“Lida propriamente, a Bíblia é a força mais potente para o ateísmo já concebida.”

Isaac Asimov

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
citado em "Holy Moses: Holy Writ Revisited" - Página 177, Joseph E. Guretzki - D. W. Friesen Sons, Limited, 2004, ISBN 1553830083, 9781553830085 - 402 páginas
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“Essa gente que pensa que sabe tudo é uma grande maçada para nós que sabemos.”

Isaac Asimov

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
como citado em "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" (2004) editado por Geoff Tibballs, p. 299
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“Os criacionistas fazem soar como se uma 'teoria' fosse algo que você sonhou após ter ficado bêbado a noite toda.”

Isaac Asimov

“Os escritores de ficção científica prevêem o inevitável e, ainda que os problemas e as catástrofes possam ser evitáveis, não há soluções.”

Isaac Asimov

“Um subtil pensamento errôneo pode dar lugar a uma indagação frutífera que revela verdades de grande valor.”

Isaac Asimov

“Nenhuma decisão sensata pode ser tomada sem que se leve em conta o mundo não apenas como ele é, mas como ele virá a ser.”

Isaac Asimov

“O maior bem do Homem é uma mente inquieta.”

Isaac Asimov

“Espera mil anos e verás que será precioso até o lixo deixado atrás por uma civilização extinta.”

Isaac Asimov

“Todas as religiões são a verdade sagrada para quem tem a fé mas não passam de fantasia para os fiéis das outras religiões.”

Isaac Asimov

“É realmente muito desanimadora essa estupidez universal. Acho que eu não sofreria tanto se o suicídio da humanidade resultasse apenas de pura maldade de coração ou por mera inconsequência. Mas é de uma falha tão desgraçada de dignidade, que estamos a ponto de nos destruir como fruto da mais obtusa e impenetrável estupidez.”

Isaac Asimov livro The Gods Themselves

The Gods Themselves

Esta tradução está aguardando revisão. Está correcto?

“Qualquer planeta é "Terra" para aqueles que vivem nele.”

Isaac Asimov

“É muito fácil tratar com sarcasmo uma causa nobre. Basta querer.”

Isaac Asimov

“Os criacionistas fazem com que uma teoria pareça uma coisa que se inventou depois de beber a noite inteira.”

Isaac Asimov

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamed up after being drunk all night. <br class="br">muitas vezes atribuída como observação para National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) (1980) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

“Onde todas as respostas são possíveis, nenhuma resposta tem significado.”

Isaac Asimov livro The Road to Infinity

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
The road to infinity - página 170, Isaac Asimov - Doubleday, 1979, ISBN 038514962X, 9780385149624 - 217 páginas

“Eu não temo os computadores, temo a ausência deles”

Isaac Asimov

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
citado em "Computers for business, a book of readings" - página 305, Hugh J. Watson, Archie B. Carroll - Business Publications ; Georgetown, Ont. : Irwin-Dorsey, 1980, ISBN 0256022895, 9780256022896 - 342 páginas
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“A frase mais empolgante de ouvir em ciência, a que prenuncia novas descobertas, não é "Eureka!", mas sim "Isto é estranho…"”

Isaac Asimov

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...'
citado em Proceedings of the ... session: Volume 36 - página 22, South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission - SOPAC Technical Secetariat, 1994
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“Estão a aparecer toda a espécie de erros de computador. Haviam de ficar admirados se soubessem a quantidade de médicos que dizem que estão a tratar homens grávidos.”

Isaac Asimov

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
citado em "Wit" - Página 236, Des MacHale - Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0740733303, 9780740733307 - 320 páginas
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“Parte da ausência de humanidade do computador deve-se a que, competentemente programado e trabalhando bem, é completamente honesto.”

Isaac Asimov

“A Terra retrocedeu. A Humanidade retrocedeu em todos os lados excepto na Lua.”

Isaac Asimov

“A primeira lei dos dietistas parece ser esta: se sabe bem, faz-te mal.”

Isaac Asimov

“Um cientista é um homem tão frágil e humano como qualquer outro; contudo, a busca científica pode enobrecê-lo, inclusivamente contra a sua vontade.”

Isaac Asimov

“Vocêque o pudor é somente o outro lado da lascívia.”

Isaac Asimov livro The Gods Themselves

The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov: Frases em inglês

“But suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?”

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Isaac Asimov

"The Dangerous Myth of Creationism" in Penthouse (January 1982); reprinted as Ch. 2 : "Creationism and the Schools" in The Roving Mind (1983), p. 16
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“Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located — so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”; in part II, “Search by the Foundation” originally published as “—And Now You Don’t” in Astounding (November and December 1949 and January 1950)

“Nonsense,” Weston denied, with an involuntary nervous shiver. “That’s completely ridiculous. We had a long discussion at the time we bought Robbie about the First Law of Robotics. You know that it is impossible for a robot to harm a human being; that long before enough can go wrong to alter that First Law, a robot would be completely inoperable. It’s a mathematical impossibility. Besides I have an engineer from U. S. Robots here twice a year to give the poor gadget a complete overhaul. Why, there’s no more chance of anything at all going wrong with Robbie than there is of you or I suddenly going looney—considerably less, in fact. Besides, how are you going to take him away from Gloria?”

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Isaac Asimov livro I, Robot

“Robbie”, p. 17
I, Robot (1950)

“Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 1 “Two Men and the Mule”; in part I, “Search by the Mule” originally published as “Now You See It—” in Astounding (January 1948)

“A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

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Isaac Asimov livro Runaround

"Runaround" in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942); later published in I, Robot (1950)
The Three Laws of Robotics (1942)
Variante: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

“The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.”

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Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 2; originally published as “The Big and the Little” in Astounding (August 1944)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.”

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Fonte: I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), p. 538

“It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.”

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"How Do People Get New Ideas?" (1959)
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“Asimov: Battlestar Galactica for instance, started off with twenty to thirty minutes of space battles which looked exactly like air battles in World War I. You could swear that the space ships were surrounded by air the way the maneuvered. One felt it was unworthy.
SWA Magazine: The Vipers in Battlestar Galactica look like jets. Is this a realistic design for the future?
Asimov: It is as if people in the 1880s were writing fantasy stories about airplanes of the future and they had the pilots lean back at the wheel and yell "whoa" and the airplane came to a halt in mid-air.”

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An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)

“Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.”

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As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
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“A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.”

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Isaac Asimov livro Runaround

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

“The house was somehow very lonely at night and Dr. Darell found that the fate of the Galaxy made remarkably little difference while his daughter’s mad little life was in danger.”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”

“It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.”

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Isaac Asimov livro Pebble in the Sky

Pebble in the Sky, chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
Pebble in the Sky (1950)

“[In response to this question by Bill Moyers: What do you see happening to the idea of dignity to human species if this population growth continues at its present rate? ] "It's going to destroy it all. I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up, you have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.”

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Interview by Bill Moyers on Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas (17 October 1988); transcript http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/print/pdfs/woi%20asimov1.pdf (page 6) - audio (20:12) http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/media_players/asimovwoi_audio.html <br class="br">General sources

““Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?”
Pelorat said, “If you list it like that—”
“List it any way you please,” said Trevize. “I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.””

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 14 “Forward!” section 1, p. 281

“Economics is on the side of humanity now.”

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Isaac Asimov livro The Currents of Space

The Currents of Space (1952)
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“Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
Asimov: Those that have proved permanent—the ones that affected every facet of life and made certain that mankind could never go back again—were always brought about by science and technology. In fact, the same twin "movers" were even behind the other "solely" historical changes. Why, for instance, did Martin Luther succeed, whereas other important rebels against the medieval church—like John Huss—fail? Well, Luther was successful because printing had been developed by the time he advanced his cause. So his good earthy writings were put into pamphlets and spread so far and wide that the church officials couldn't have stopped the Protestant Reformation even if they had burned Luther at the stake.
Plowboy: Today the world is changing faster than it has at any other time in history. Do you then feel that science—and scientists—are especially important now?
Asimov: I do think so, and as a result it's my opinion that anyone who can possibly introduce science to the nonscientist should do so. After all, we don't want scientists to become a priesthood. We don't want society's technological thinkers to know something that nobody else knows—to "bring down the law from Mt. Sinai"—because such a situation would lead to public fear of science and scientists. And fear, as you know, can be dangerous.
Plowboy: But scientific knowledge is becoming so incredibly vast and specialized these days that it's difficult for any individual to keep up with it all.
Asimov: Well, I don't expect everybody to be a scientist or to understand every new development. After all, there are very few Americans who know enough about football to be a referee or to call the plays … but many, many people understand the sport well enough to follow the game. It's not important that the average citizen understand science so completely that he or she could actually become involved in research, but it is very important that people be able to "follow the game" well enough to have some intelligent opinions on policy.
Every subject of worldwide importance—each question upon which the life and death of humanity depends—involves science, and people are not going to be able to exercise their democratic right to direct government policy in such areas if they don't understand what the decisions are all about.”

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Isaac Asimov

Mother Earth News interview (1980)