Asimov autobiography atheist quote

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By Elizabeth Prata

My summer reading this school break included an Isaac Asimov book I picked up at a thrift store. When I was in high school I read a lot of science fiction. I had decided to return to the genre. I hadn’t read any sci-fi in 40 years. Asimov is one of the fathers of science fiction, and one of the most prolific.

He was born in Russia in 1920. He emigrated as a boy and then attended an annex of Columbia University majoring in chemistry, and became a writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. Asimov was considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein (“Stranger In A Strange Land”) and Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey”), even during his own lifetime, a feat of fame. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. That’s why he is considered prolific.

Asimov coined the term ‘robotics,’ a combinatio

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Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

— Isaac Asimov

In John Altson, Patti Rae Miliotis, What Happened to Grandpa? (2009).

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I. Asimov Quotes

“The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined parti of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. inom am a New York patriot, for instance, and if inom lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get tillsammans with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway."

This sort of thing, however, should remain cultural and benign. I'm against it if it means that each group despises others and lusts to wipe them out. I'm against arming each little self-defined group with weapons with which to enforce its own prides and prejudices.

The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a bostadsduglig world. Humanity cannot afford to waste it