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January 2, 2020 02:34 pm

A Celebration of Isaac Asimov

Stephen Colbert: Isaac Asimov would have been 100 today. He published in every category of the Dewey Decimal system. After reading him your mind works better. Too many great quotes. Here's one: "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." Here's another: "It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety." In 1967, Asimov talked about what life with robots might be like in the future. "I wonder if we will make robots so much like men and men so much like robots that eventually we'll lose the distinction altogether." (A short BBC interview on it.) Asimov's commentary on society: "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." "There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity." "There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference -- but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort."

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