Isaac Asimov on Bill Moyers World of Ideas pt 3

1988 Interview with Isaac Asimov by Bill Moyers - about learning, computers, religion, population growth, the universe..

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[SpazzzDog]

Asimov must be rolling over in his grave with Creationism taking over in this country.

[Tralababalan]

This is well spoken man.

[Mentalplix]

I love the idea of always learning. He talks of a famous man reading a Greek grammer book on his deathbed to: "improve his mind". There's something beautiful about that, especially today, where you are considered over the hill if you're over thirty. The truth is, if you keep an inquisitive mind, you'll live a full and wondrous life because you'll never stop discovering new ideas.

[quidproquo2004]

Asimov and Moyers, this is just gold.

[LDP060681]

@SpazzzDog Asimov would be unsurprised man. The guy describes every piece of hell that's landed on the kids born in the late 70s and early 80s. We're living everything he forewarns against. Oh to be an oblivious babyboomer, or ww2 genius like Asimov, Sagan, or Feynmann.

[lordmahan11]

I feel one of Asimov's comment captures his real feelings of faith: He puts his trust in reason because he knows now where else to put it. If his understanding of the rationality of faith increased, and he knew that faith as being a hope for things unseen but are true, he would realize how much faith in involved in the pursuit of science. I do not believe he is against religion or the idea of God; rather, his experiences have left him merely skeptical. No blame there.

[D3ADCrAzY]

I could listen to him talk for hours on end. I wish there was more of him.

[Giby86]

Modest? Asimov??

[mikepep33]

He was a farily modest guy and a genius as well. I wish more thinkers were like him, instead of being stuck-up assholes.

[TuNuCedeMalis]

Using rational thinking to destroy rational thinking is like cutting off the branch your sitting on. Yet, this is the very thing many religions do. Pastor after pastor preaching the irrationality of rationality. How faith should replace reason, an ancient book replace evidence, the unknown replace the known."saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster then humanity gathers wisdom"