“A violência é o último refúgio do incompetente.”
Variante: A agressão é o último refúgio do incompetente.
Isaac Asimov:
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Isaac Asimov Frases famosas
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
“Na vida, ao contrário do xadrez, o jogo continua depois do xeque-mate.”
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.”
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
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.”
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.”
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
“Apenas uma guerra é permitida à espécie humana: a guerra contra a extinção.”
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 o conhecimento traz problemas, não é a ignorância que os resolve.”
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.”
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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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.”
citado em O Homem Bicentenário
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
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
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
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.”
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”
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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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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“Essa gente que pensa que sabe tudo é uma grande maçada para nós que sabemos.”
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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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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The Gods Themselves
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Isaac Asimov: Frases em inglês
“It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.”
Fonte: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 22 “Death on Neotrantor”
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The Gods Themselves
Section 3 “...contend in vain?”, Chapter 3 (p. 187)
The Gods Themselves (1972)
The Near East (1968), p. 260
General sources
"The Secrets of the Universe" (1989) (essay reprinted in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 168)
General sources
“The best way to describe anyone is to give an example of the kind of thing he would do.”
In Joy Still Felt (1980), p. 499
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The Annotated Gulliver's Travels (1980), p. 16
General sources
“Certain success evicts one from the paradise of winning against the odds.”
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In Memory Yet Green
In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 420
General sources
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?
"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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The Dark Ages (1968), p. 188
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The Near East (1968), p. 33
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“Religion is more conservative than any other aspect of human life.”
The Near East (1968), p. 14
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"Constructing a Man" in Is Anyone There? (1967), p. 93
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"On Flying Saucers" in Is Anyone There? (1967), pp. 215–216
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"Thinking About Thinking" in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1975
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"Alas, All Human" in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1979
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Our Federal Union (1975), p. 248
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“In the world of today can there be peace anywhere until there is peace everywhere?”
The Egyptians (1967), p. 241
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“Generals are usually a conservative force who can be relied on to oppose social change.”
The Egyptians (1967), p. 93
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Fonte: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 20 “Where?” (p. 166)
She said softly, “I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.”
Fonte: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 19 “Defeat!” (p. 163)
“Then why did you run? A man who runs needs no other accusation.”
Isaac Asimov
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The Currents of Space
“Is that so? Really?” cried Steen. “Well, I would run out of a burning building even if I had not set the fire myself.”
Fonte: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 16 “The Accused” (p. 163)
“You make interstellar politics sound a very dirty game.”
Isaac Asimov
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The Currents of Space
“It is, but disapproving of dirt doesn’t remove it.”
Fonte: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 14 “The Renegade” (p. 141)
