[ExI] Asimov's 90th today

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Tue Jan 4 19:14:40 UTC 2011


On 1/4/2011 12:34 PM, John Clark wrote:
> On page 302 of Isaac Asimov's autobiography " In Joy Still Felt" he
> describes the time he met Carl Sagan for the first time:
>
>
> "He [Carl Sagan] was a 27 year old handsome young man, tall, dark,
> articulate and absolutely incredibly intelligent. I had to add him to
> Marvin Minsky and thereafter I would say that they were two people who I
> would readily admit were more intelligent than I was. "

I suspect it's in chapter 144 of *I. Asimov: A Memoir*, on Heinz Pagels, 
that he added Dr. P to that list. But I don't have the book handy, and 
Google won't display that text. Fwiw.

Damien Broderick



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