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Isaac Asimov

출생: January 02, 1920 – Petrovichi, Smolensk Oblast, Russia

Isaac Asimov was an American writer and biochemistry professor whose work spanned science fiction, popular science, and essays. He is best known for the Foundation series, the Robot stories, and I, Robot, and for formulating the Three Laws of Robotics. He published or edited more than 500 books and won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards.

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Isaac Asimov was born on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi, in what was then Soviet Russia, and was brought to the United States as a small child, growing up in Brooklyn, New York. Raised in a family that ran candy stores, he spent much of his youth reading pulp magazines and teaching himself at a remarkable pace. He studied at Columbia University, earning degrees in chemistry before completing a Ph.D. in biochemistry. Although he briefly pursued academic work, the decisive turning point in his life came when his success in science fiction magazines made clear that writing, not laboratory research, would be his central vocation. By the 1940s and 1950s, he had become one of the defining voices of modern speculative fiction.

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been
-A Cult of Ignorance
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"my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-A Cult of Ignorance
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Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived
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The benefits are a matter of theory; the harm is clear and present
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A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance
-How Do People Get New Ideas?
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Know, then, that I, Isaac Asimov, am proud of my name
-Isaac Asimov to Planet Stories, Spring
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My name is Asimov, and not Asenion, curse you all!
-Isaac Asimov to Planet Stories, Spring

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