Today's Quotes — Isaac Asimov

[furrbear]

Isaac Asimov was born at Petrovichi, Russia on this day in 1920. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York, and Asimov went on to Columbia University (BS, MA, and PhD), then taught biochemistry at Boston University until 1958 when he left the classroom to write full time. He wrote a torrent, over 500 titles before his death. One source claims he is the only author to publish at least one book in every major classification of the Dewey decimal system, his works included books on Shakespeare and Biblical studies, science, and, of course, science fiction.

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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
     All from Isaac Asimov, 1920 - 1992

Comments

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

He was a great man.. I've read several of his books. The first was " Nine Tomorrows." I was
10 years old when I read it, and it remains one of my all time favorite books.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

I still miss the Good Doctor.