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Isaac Asimov foi um escritor e bioquímico americano, nascido na Rússia, autor de obras de ficção científica e divulgação científica.

Asimov é considerado um dos mestres da Ficção Científica e, junto com Robert A. Heinlein e Arthur C. Clarke, foi considerado um dos "três grandes" da ficção científica. A obra mais famosa de Asimov é a Série da Fundação, também conhecida como Trilogia da Fundação, que faz parte da série do Império Galáctico e que logo combinou com a Série Robôs. Também escreveu obras de mistério e fantasia, assim como uma grande quantidade de não-ficção. No total, escreveu ou editou mais de 500 volumes, aproximadamente 90 000 cartas ou postais, e tem obras em cada categoria importante do sistema de classificação bibliográfica de Dewey, exceto em filosofia.A maioria de seus livros mais populares sobre ciência, explicam conceitos científicos de uma forma histórica, voltando no tempo o mais longe possível, quando a ciência em questão estava nos primeiros estágios. Ele providencia, muitas vezes, datas de nascimento e falecimento dos cientistas que menciona, também etimologias e guias de pronunciação para termos técnicos. Alguns exemplos incluem, "Guide to Science", os três volumes de "Understanding Physics" e a "Chronology of Science and Discovery", e trabalhos sobre Astronomia, Matemática, a Bíblia, escritos de William Shakespeare e Química.

Em 1981, um asteroide recebeu seu nome em sua homenagem, o 5020 Asimov. O robô humanóide "ASIMO" da Honda, também pode ser considerada uma homenagem indireta a Asimov, pois o nome do robô significa, em inglês, Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, além de também significar, em japonês, "também com pernas" , em um trocadilho linguístico em relação à propriedade inovadora de movimentação deste robô. Wikipedia  

✵ 1920 – 6. Abril 1992
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Isaac Asimov Frases famosas

“A violência é o último refúgio do incompetente.”

Isaac Asimov

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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Isaac Asimov frases e citações

“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

De livros

“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

De guerra

“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.

Problema , Conhecimento

“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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“Os criacionistas fazem soar como se uma 'teoria' fosse algo que você sonhou após ter ficado bêbado a noite toda.”

Isaac Asimov
Noite

“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

Liberdade , Universo , Indiferença

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

Isaac Asimov

citado em O Homem Bicentenário

De idade , Liberdade

“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

De verdade , De idade , Estrela , Inteligência

“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.
muitas vezes atribuída como observação para National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) (1980) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

Noite

“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

De morte , De dor

“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

“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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De dor

“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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Ciência

“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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“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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De idade , De homens , De dor , Erro

“Parte da ausência de humanidade do computador deve-se a que, competentemente programado e trabalhando bem, é completamente honesto.”

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
De homens

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

Isaac Asimov
Problema

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

Isaac Asimov
De verdade

“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
De mundo , Decisão , Leve

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

Isaac Asimov
verão

“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
De religião , De fé , De verdade

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

Isaac Asimov livro The Gods Themselves

The Gods Themselves

“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

Coração , De estupidez , Falha , Suicídio

Isaac Asimov: Frases em inglês

“You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.”

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Isaac Asimov livro The Gentle Vultures

"The Gentle Vultures" in Super-Science Fiction (December 1957)
General sources

“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”

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Isaac Asimov livro I, Robot

“Liar!”, p. 89
I, Robot (1950)

“If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love — so what difference would it make?”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 20 “Conclusion” section 4, p. 420

“I recognize the necessity of animal experiments with my mind but not with my heart.”

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"Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat" (August 1972), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 153
General sources

“It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word “intuition.””

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 18 “Collision” section 4, p. 377

“Asimov: Well, I liked Star Wars. I thought Battlestar Galactica was such a close imitation of Star Wars, emphasizing the less attractive portions, that I was a little impatient with it.”

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An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)

“Titles are an important part of a story and I take considerable care in choosing one. In fact, I cannot start a story until I have chosen a title.”

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Isaac Asimov livro Banquets of the Black Widowers

Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 27
General sources

“Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.”

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Isaac Asimov livro The Gods Themselves

Section 2 “...the gods themselves...”, Chapter 1b, p. 82
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“Why, Stephen, if I am right, it means that the Machine is conducting our future for us not only simply in direct answer to our direct questions, but in general answer to the world situation and to human psychology as a whole. And to know that may make us unhappy and may hurt our pride. The Machine cannot, must not, make us unhappy.
"Stephen, how do we know what the ultimate good of Humanity will entail? We haven't at our disposal the infinite factors that the Machine has at its! Perhaps, to give you a not unfamiliar example, our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed. Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization, with less culture and less people would be better. If so, the Machines must move in that direction, preferably without telling us, since in our ignorant prejudices we only know that what we are used to, is good—and we would then fight change. Or perhaps a complete urbanization, or a completely caste-ridden society, or complete anarchy, is the answer. We don't know. Only the Machines know, and they are going there and taking us with them."
"But you are telling me, Susan, that the 'Society for Humanity' is right; and that Mankind has lost its own say in its future."
"It never had any, really. It was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand—at the whims of climate, and the fortunes of war. Now the Machines understand them; and no one can stop them, since the Machines will deal with them as they are dealing with the Society,—having, as they do, the greatest of weapons at their disposal, the absolute control of our economy."
"How horrible!”

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Isaac Asimov livro I, Robot

"Perhaps how wonderful! Think, that for all time, all conflicts are finally evitable. Only the Machines, from now on, are inevitable!"
“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 192
I, Robot (1950)

“Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal “honor” and court etiquette.”

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Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 4
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.”

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Isaac Asimov livro The Road to Infinity

The Road to Infinity (1979), p. 170
General sources

“All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary”

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Isaac Asimov livro The Relativity of Wrong

"The Relativity of Wrong" (1988) - "Beginning with Bone" (May 1987)
General sources

“There is more to a science fiction story than the science it contains. There is also the story.”

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Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
General sources

“The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity.”

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Isaac Asimov livro In Memory Yet Green

In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 461
General sources

“Asimov: Science fiction always bases its future visions on changes in the levels of science and technology. And the reason for that consistency is simply that—in reality—all other changes throughout history have been irrelevant and trivial. For example, what difference did it make to the people of the ancient world that Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire? Obviously, that event made some difference to a lot of individuals. But if you look at humanity in general, you'll see that life went on pretty much as it had before the conquest.
On the other hand, consider the changes that were made in people's daily lives by the development of agriculture or the mariner's compass… and by the invention of gunpowder or printing. Better yet, look at recent history and ask yourself, "What difference would it have made if Hitler had won World War II?" Of course, such a victory would have made a great difference to many people. It would have resulted in much horror, anguish, and pain. I myself would probably not have survived.
But Hitler would have died eventually, and the effects of his victory would gradually have washed out and become insignificant—in terms of real change—when compared to such advances as the actual working out of nuclear power, the advent of television, or the invention of the jet plane.”

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Mother Earth News interview (1980)

“Weisinger, a couple of years ago, made up the following story: "Isaac Asimov was asked how Superman could fly faster than the speed of light, which was supposed to be an absolute limit. To this Asimov replied, 'That the speed of light is a limit is a theory; that Superman can travel faster than light is a fact.'"
I assure you it never happened and I never said it, but it will be repeated, I am quite certain, indefinitely, and it will probably be found in Bartlett's quotations a century from now, attributed to me, after all my writings have been forgotten.”

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"Science Fiction, 1938" Nebula Winners 14 (1980) edited by Frederick J. Pohl, p. 97
General sources

“I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.”

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Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright (1978), p. 235
General sources

“I suppose he’s entitled to his opinion, but I don’t suppose it very hard.”

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“Seven Steps to Grand Master” in Nebula Awards 22 (1988), edited by George Zebrowski
General sources

“I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.”

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Isaac Asimov livro In Memory Yet Green

In Memory Yet Green (Avon Books, 1979), p. 18
General sources

“He is energetic only in evading responsibility.”

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Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 2
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.””

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Isaac Asimov livro I, Robot

“Catch That Rabbit”, p. 65
I, Robot (1950)

“Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.”

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Isaac Asimov livro I, Robot

“Catch That Rabbit”, p. 71
I, Robot (1950)

“All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.”

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"Lost in Non-Translation" (1989), in Magic (Voyager, 1997) p. 270
General sources

““You’re the U. S. Robot’s psychologist, aren’t you?”
“Robopsychologist, please.”
“Oh, are robots so different from men, mentally?”
“Worlds different.” She allowed herself a frosty smile, “Robots are essentially decent.””

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Isaac Asimov livro I, Robot

“Evidence”, p. 151
I, Robot (1950)

““That was the time to begin all-out preparations for war.”
“On the contrary. That was the time to begin all-out prevention of war.””

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Part III, The Mayors, section 1
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“Science is a systematic method for studying and working out those generalizations that seem to describe the behavior of the universe. It could exist as a purely intellectual game that would never affect the practical life of human beings either for good or evil, and that was very nearly the case in ancient Greece, for instance. Technology is the application of scientific findings to the tools of everyday life, and that application can be wise or unwise, useful or harmful. Very often, those who govern technological decisions are not scientists and know little about science.”

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"By the Numbers" (May 1973), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 190
General sources

“Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
Asimov: To tell the truth, I don't think the odds are very good that we can solve our immediate problems. I think the chances that civilization will survive more than another 30 years—that it will still be flourishing in 2010—are less than 50 percent.
Plowboy: What sort of disaster do you foresee?
Asimov: I imagine that as population continues to increase—and as the available resources decrease—there will be less energy and food, so we'll all enter a stage of scrounging. The average person's only concerns will be where he or she can get the next meal, the next cigarette, the next means of transportation. In such a universal scramble, the Earth will be just plain desolated, because everyone will be striving merely to survive regardless of the cost to the environment. Put it this way: If I have to choose between saving myself and saving a tree, I'm going to choose me.
Terrorism will also become a way of life in a world marked by severe shortages. Finally, some government will be bound to decide that the only way to get what its people need is to destroy another nation and take its goods … by pushing the nuclear button.
And this absolute chaos is going to develop—even if nobody wants nuclear war and even if everybody sincerely wants peace and social justice—if the number of mouths to feed continues to grow. Nothing will be able to stand up against the pressure of the whole of humankind simply trying to stay alive!”

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Mother Earth News interview (1980)

“Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field.”

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Fonte: The Roving Mind (1983), Ch. 25

“The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.”

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Isaac Asimov livro Fact and Fancy

Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
General sources

“An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.”

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Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 13
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

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