Isaac Asimov
professor
| Date of Birth | : | 02 Jan, 1920 |
| Date of Death | : | 06 Apr, 1992 |
| Place of Birth | : | Petrovichi, Russia |
| Profession | : | American Writer And Professor |
| Nationality | : | American |
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction.
Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation series, the first three books of which won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. His other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. The Galactic Empire novels are set in the much earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation series. Later, with Foundation and Earth (1986), he linked this distant future to the Robot series, creating a unified "future history" for his works. He also wrote more than 380 short stories, including the social science fiction novelette "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted the best short science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.
What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
People think of education as something that they can finish.
