Isaac Asimov is remembered above all for his great contributions to the scientific world, thanks to his research and essays, but he was also a great science fiction writer. East writer and biochemist, half Russian, half American (he had dual citizenship), He was born on a day like today, January 2or, but from the year 1920, in Russia, specifically in Petrovichi, but only at 3 years of age he moved with his family to New York, USA.
He graduated in Biochemistry from Columbia University and then completed a postgraduate degree in chemistry that he completed in 1941, at the same university, which would help him get a job as a chemical researcher in the US Navy, in its shipyards. Years later, he obtained a doctorate in Chemistry and became part of the teaching staff of the Boston University.
Leaving aside his more professional life and going on to talk about his more creative-literary side, he was also the creator of works of science fiction and history. His work "Foundation", Also known as Trilogy o Trantor Cycle, with a total of over 500 volumes, we can find both mystery-fantasy works and non-fiction texts. Alone Rober A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke They could overshadow Asimov, since all three were considered the best science fiction writers of the moment.
As curious data, we will say that the movie I, Robot was based on a work by Asimov and that in 1981 asteroid 5020 would be named after him.
I would die at the age of 72 in the same city that hosted him, New York.
10 quotes by Isaac Asimov and video
- "First of all, let's get rid of Socrates, for I am already fed up with this invention that knowing nothing is a sign of wisdom."
- "In life, unlike chess, life continues even after checkmate."
- "There is only one war that man can be allowed: the war against his extinction."
- Nothing alters my concentration. You could have an orgy in my office and I wouldn't watch. Well, maybe at least once.
- "I am convinced that self-education is the only type of education that exists."
- "For me, writing is just thinking with my fingers."
- "Surrendering to ignorance and mentioning God has always been premature, and it is still premature even today."
- I am a staunch and staunch atheist. It took me a long time to say. I have been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt that it was intellectually disrespectful for one to say that he is an atheist, because it assumes having knowledge that no one has. Somehow, it was better to say that one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I am a creature of both emotion and reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I have such a strong suspicion that He doesn't exist that I don't even want to waste my time on it. "
- "Never let a sense of morals stop you from doing what is right."
- "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Next, we leave you with a fragment of an interview that was made to the author, where he foresaw the internet repercussion in people's life: