Quotes About History

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more. Seldon predicted a series of crises through the thousand years of growth, each of which would force a new turning of our history into a pre-calculated path. It is those crises which direct us – and therefore a crisis must come now.

It is my belief that throughout the history of the positronic robot, the First Law of Robotics has been deliberately misquoted.

Eventually, it had to be accepted that God had created invisible stars and this was the very first hint that perhaps the Universe had not been created with human welfare as its primary object (a point I have never seen stressed in histories of science)

When you think of human history, you think of the occasional human being whose minority view may be condemned by society but who wins out in the end and changes the world. What chance is there on Gaia for the great rebels of history?

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

Si todos los seres humanos comprendieran la Historia, podrían dejar de cometer los mismos estúpidos errores una y otra vez.

U istoriji ne postoje sre?ni završeci, postoje samo krizne ta?ke koje odu u prošlost.

podemos afirmar que hacia 350 a.C. ningún científico dudaba ya de que la Tierra fuese una esfera. Desde entonces, este concepto ha sido admitido en todo momento por cualquier hombre culto del mundo occidental.

Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject—written by men who were dead for centuries.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

That old?" The old man sighed. "History has been crowded since.

I tell you I know the type of people that become Medievalists. They're soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.

fama de tortuoso.

It was a low point in history – but it was the end of nationalism. Earth was too small for nations and they began grouping themselves into Regions. It took quite a while. When I was born the United States of America was still a nation and not merely a part of the Northern Region. In fact, the name of the corporation is still "United States Robots—". And the change from nations to Regions, which has stabilized our economy and brought about what amounts to a Golden Age

en la Historia no hay finales felices, solo momentos críticos que se superan.

No? Then listen to this. It is my belief that throughout the history of the positronic robot, the First Law of Robotics has been deliberately misquoted." Leebig moved spasmodically. "Misquoted? Fool! Madman! Why?" "To hide the fact," said Baley with complete composure, "that robots can commit murder.

La religión es una de las grandes influencias civilizadoras de la historia

There had always been prophets of Malthusian doom in every generation since Medieval times and they had always proven wrong.

Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer. I find it all remarkably useless.

Gecenin bast?rmas?, kökleri insanl?k tarihinin baÅŸlar?na kadar uzanan büyük bir psikolojik huzursuzluk yarat?r. Gece daima bir güvensizlik ve korku zaman?d?r ve cesaret güneÅŸle birlikte bat?p gitmiÅŸtir.

un verdadero robot fue imposible antes de la invención de la computadora en los años cuarenta, y no fue práctico (en el sentido de ser lo suficientemente compacto y lo bastante económico para aplicarlo al uso cotidiano) hasta la invención del microchip en los años setenta.

El siglo XVIII fue la edad de oro de los «autómatas».

This is a Seldon crisis we're facing, Sutt, and Seldon crises are not solved by individuals but by historic forces. Hari Seldon, when he planned our course of future history, did not count on brilliant heroics but on the broad sweeps of economics and sociology. So the solutions to the various crises must be achieved by the forces that become available to us at the time. "In this case,—trade!