Bu yaygın budalalık insanın cesaretini kırıyor. Galiba insanlığın sırf kötü kalpli ve pervasız olduğu için intihar etmesine üzülmeyeceğim. Kalın kafalılık ve ahmaklık yüzünden ölmek pek vakarsızca bir şey. Madem böyle öleceksin o zaman insan olmanın ne yararı var?
Isaac AsimovIn the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.
Isaac AsimovWith the slow fascination of fear, he lifted himself on one arm and turned his eyes toward the blood-curdling blackness of the window.
Through it shone the stars!
Not Earth's feeble thirty-six hundred Stars visible to the eye; Lagash was in the center of a giant cluster. Thirty thousand mighty suns shone down in a soul-searing splendor that was more frighteningly cold in its awful indifference than the bitter wind that shivered across the cold, horribly bleak world.
On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward.
Isaac AsimovIt 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. Once it was well known that cigarettes increased the incidence of lung cancer, the obvious remedy was to stop smoking, but the desired remedy was a cigarette that did not cause cancer. When it became clear that the internal-combustion engine was polluting the atmosphere dangerously, the obvious remedy was to abandon such engines, and the desired remedy was to develop non-polluting engines.
Isaac AsimovDoes everyone just believe what he wants to?"
"As long as possible. Sometimes longer."
"What about you?"
"You mean, am I human? Certainly. I don't believe I'm really old. I believe I'm quite attractive. I believe you seek out my company because you think I'm charming - even when you insist on turning the conversation to physics.
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Isaac AsimovI would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?
Isaac AsimovMots clés equality social-change
Ese mismo año, un grupo de astrónomos encabezado por Cornell H. Mayer recibió ondas de
radio procedentes de Venus y quedó atónito al ver que la intensidad de esas ondas equivalía a la que
cabía esperar de un objeto mucho más caliente de lo que se creía que era Venus. De ser eso cierto, no
podría haber océano planetario en Venus; de hecho, no podía haber agua líquida de ninguna clase (y así
se echó a perder mi pobre novela, que sólo hacía dos años que había sido publicada).
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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