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ISAAC ASIMOV

Carl has a keen sense of humor, an incisive intelligence. He's just as intelligent in his speaking as he is in his writing….

I've learned a great deal from his articles. I like to think I have read just about everything he has written. Virtually everything I know about the possibility of extraterrestrial life was inspired by his writings on the subject. On that question our minds have the same set. I find it very easy to agree with Carl.

I don't agree with those who criticize him as a popularizer. I happen to think that the popularization of science is the most important thing a scientist can do, next to actually broadening science itself.

Isaac Asimov, "Isaac Asimov on 'Cosmos' Star," in Horizon, Vol. 23, No. 10, October, 1980, p. 28.

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1. Introduction
2. Edward Edelson
3. Richard Berendzen
4. Peter Stoler
5. Richard Restak
6. R. J. Herrnstein
7. John Updike
8. Stephen C. Reingold
9. Charles Weingartner
10. Edmund Fuller
11. Richard Berendzen
12. Dewey Schwartzenburg
13. James H. Booth
14. Isaac Asimov
15. David Roberts
16. William J. O'Malley, S.J.
17. Jeffrey Marsh
18. David Paul Rebovich
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