Frases de Isaac Asimov (343 citações, página 8)

Isaac Asimov: 343 citações 30 Curtidas

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.”

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“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

“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.”

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Noite

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

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

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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…"”

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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.”

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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

“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

De leis

“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.”

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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.”

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De mundo , Decisão , Leve

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

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De homens

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

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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

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

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov: Frases em inglês

“SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?
Asimov: Well, I hope it does get off the ground. And I hope they expand it, because the shuttle program is the gateway to everything else. By means of the shuttle, we will be able to build space stations and power stations, laboratory facilities and habitations, and everything else in space.
SWA Magazine: How about orbital space colonies? Do you see these facilities being built or is the government going to cut back on projects like this?
Asimov: Well, now you've put your finger right on it. In order to have all of these wonderful things in space, we don't have to wait for technology - we've got the technology, and we don't have to wait for the know-how - we've got that too. All we need is the political go-ahead and the economic willingness to spend the money that is necessary. It is a little frustrating to think that if people concentrate on how much it is going to cost they will realize the great amount of profit they will get for their investment. Although they are reluctant to spend a few billions of dollars to get back an infinite quantity of money, the world doesn't mind spending $400 billion every years on arms and armaments, never getting anything back from it except a chance to commit suicide.”

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An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)

“It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 15 “Gaia-S” section 2, p. 302

“You are a valuable subject, Brodrig. You always suspect far more than is necessary, and I have but to take half your suggested precautions to be utterly safe.”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 4 “The Emperor”

“He believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don’t believe in it at all.”

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

“I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters… In between two of the segments she asked me…"But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?" I said, "Type faster." This was widely quoted, but the "six months" was changed to "six minutes," which bothered me. It's "six months."”

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Asimov Laughs Again (1992)
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“Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 17 “Gaia” section 5, p. 363

“Miniaturization doesn't actually make sense unless you miniaturize the very atoms of which matter is composed. Otherwise a tiny brain in a man the size of an insect, composed of normal atoms, is composed of too few atoms for the miniaturized man to be any more intelligent than the ant. Also, miniaturizing atoms is impossible according to the rules of quantum mechanics.”

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As quoted in Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies (1984) edited by Danny Peary, p. 5
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“Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, “then I would say this lady can not exist — for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 13 “Lieutenant and Clown”

“The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.”

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Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)
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“Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.”

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Robot Dreams (1986), introduction
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“It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.”

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Isaac Asimov livro The Gods Themselves

Section 1, Chapter 7, p. 56; the book is set in the year 2100.
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.”

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Isaac Asimov livro Pebble in the Sky

Fonte: Pebble in the Sky (1950), chapter 15 “The Odds That Vanished”, p. 136

“For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat’s are really deadly.”

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Part III, The Mayors, section 7
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.”

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Isaac Asimov livro I, Robot

“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 187
I, Robot (1950)

“Science Digest asked me to see the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and write an article for them on the science it contained. I saw the picture and was appalled. I remained appalled even after a doctor’s examination had assured me that no internal organs had been shaken loose by its ridiculous soundwaves. (If you can’t be good, be loud, some say, and Close Encounters was very loud.) … Hollywood must deal with large audiences, most of whom are utterly unfamiliar with good science fiction. It has to bend to them, meet them at least half-way. Fully appreciating that, I could enjoy Planet of the Apes and Star Wars. Star Wars was entertainment for the masses and did not try to be anything more. Leave your sophistication at the door, get into the spirit, and you can have a fun ride. … Seeing a rotten picture for the special effects is like eating a tough steak for the smothered onions, or reading a bad book for the dirty parts. Optical wizardry is something a movie can do that a book can’t but it is no substitute for a story, for logic, for meaning. It is ornamentation, not substance. In fact, whenever a science fiction picture is praised overeffusively for its special effects, I know it’s a bad picture. Is that all they can find to talk about?”

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"Editorial: The Reluctant Critic", in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 6, (12 November 1978) https://archive.org/stream/Asimovs_v02n06_1978-11-12/
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“There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.”

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Isaac Asimov livro I, Robot

“Runaround”, p. 41; see above for the Three Laws of Robotics, also drawn from this story
I, Robot (1950)

“At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 1 “Councilman” section 1, p. 4

“Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.”

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Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 11 “Bride and Groom”; in part II, “The Mule” originally published under the same title in Astounding (November-December 1945)

“I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.”

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"Academe and I" (May 1972), in The Tragedy of the Moon (1973), p. 224
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“The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”

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Isaac Asimov livro Fact and Fancy

Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
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“There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.”

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Isaac Asimov livro Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 33
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“Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.”

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Part III, The Mayors, section 1; originally published as “Bridle and Saddle” in Astounding (June 1942)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

“If an interaction is too weak to be detectable or to exert influence in any way, then by any operational definition, it doesn’t exist.”

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Isaac Asimov livro The Gods Themselves

Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 257
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“There was no denying that he would always be conscious of the fact that an Earthman was an Earthman. He couldn’t help that. That was the result of a childhood immersed in an atmosphere of bigotry so complete that it was almost invisible, so entire that you accepted its axioms as second nature. Then you left it and saw it for what it was when you looked back.”

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Isaac Asimov livro Pebble in the Sky

Pebble in the Sky, chapter 7 “Conversation with Madmen?”, p. 58
Pebble in the Sky (1950)

“To be sure, the Bible contains the direct words of God. How do we know? The Moral Majority says so. How do they know? They say they know and to doubt it makes you an agent of the Devil or, worse, a Lbr-l Dm-cr-t. And what does the Bible textbook say? Well, among other things it says the earth was created in 4004 BC (Not actually, but a Moral Majority type figured that out three and a half centuries ago, and his word is also accepted as inspired.) The sun was created three days later. The first male was molded out of dirt, and the first female was molded, some time later, out of his rib. As far as the end of the universe is concerned, the Book of Revelation (6:13-14) says: "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." … Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

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"The Blind Who Would Lead", essay in The Roving Mind (1983); as quoted in Canadian Atheists Newsletter (1994)
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“The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.”

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Statement of 1965, as quoted without citation of a specific work in Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited by Asimov and Jason A. Shulman, p. 233 https://archive.org/details/BookOfScienceAndNatureQuotations-IsaacAsimov
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