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Isaac Asimov

(1920 - 1992)

Born in Russia, the famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published hundreds of books before his death in Brooklyn in 1992. He shares a name with a Martian crater, an asteroid, a defunct magazine, and a school in Brooklyn. Asimov’s books include I, Robot; Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare, Volume Two; and Words from History.

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The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.

—Isaac Asimov, 1974

The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.

—Isaac Asimov, 1988

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