Quotes from Isaac Asimov

estoy a punto de lanzar todo mi peso contra una puerta y encontrar que está abierta de par en par.

Ever since Alexander went to India, Greek kings used elephants in war, mainly for prestige. They were rarely any use. Unlike horses, they were far too intelligent to risk injury merely at a man's urging. It was easy to panic elephants to hastily retreat, trampling their own army.

Yok olmaktan kurtulanlar?n pek az?n? teÅŸkil eden bu edebiyat, beni kendisine a??k etti. Bizim d??a dönük dünyam?z?n tam aksine bu eserlerde içe dönük bir ÅŸeyler var.

Let us assume you've made your point.

Para triunfar, el solo planteamiento es insuficiente. También se debe improvisar.» Yo improvisaré.

Even as though dearest with th en humble and defenseless, thus shalt though be dealt with.

if you wish to call the truth impossible, that is your privilege, but it will get you nowhere.

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.

Debes seguir enviando tu trabajo; nunca debes dejar un manuscrito guardado en un cajón y cogiendo polvo. Manda ese trabajo una y otra vez mientras trabajas en el siguiente. Si tienes talento, alcanzarás algún tipo de éxito. Pero sólo si persistes.

He seemed so to Hari Seldon, certainly. Seldon stopped his morning constitutional to watch him.

Now tell me, where was the need for violence?

Estamos tan rodeados de historias sobrenaturales, de la aceptación sin problemas de lo paranormal, de la amenaza de los distintos poderes que intentan con todas sus fuerzas convencernos de la existencia de lo sobrenatural, que hasta los más firmes podemos sentirnos desfallecer.

Él podía ser un extranjero, pero un hombre siempre es un hombre.

Oddity is in the mind of the receiver.

And one day he said, I'm going to see Hallam again. Bronowski's eyebrows lifted. What for? To have him turn me down. Yes, that's about your speed, Pete. You're unhappy if your troubles die down a bit.

Why do you slink away as I approach? Berliner: I fear you, majesty. King (wielding his stick): You're supposed to love me, scum! Love me! [Asimov's Chronology of the World, p. 276]

Gaal Dornick, utilizando conceptos no matemáticos, ha definido la psicohistoria como la rama de las matemáticas que trata sobre las reacciones de conglomeraciones humanas ante determinados estímulos sociales y económicos

Ideally, the Jump took zero-time—literally zero—and, if it were carried through with perfect smoothness, there would not, could not be any biological sensation at all. Physicists maintained, however, that perfect smoothness required infinite energy so that there was always an "effective time" that was not quite zero, though it could be made as short as desired. It was that which produced that odd and essentially harmless feeling of inversion.

They want to be treated as equals, they say, and so they do, but, given a chance, they have no desire to treat others as equals.

as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required....the presence of others can only inhibit this process, since creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred...foolish ones, which you naturally do not care to display.

No ha dicho cuando volverá. Hardin contestó: -Lo sé…; ¡Pero espero que no vuelva hasta que usted y yo estemos segura y cómodamente muertos!

Creo que Dios preferiría un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace más que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horribles, horribles, horribles.

The division between human and robot is perhaps not as significant as that between intelligence and nonintelligence.

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