It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
Interpretation
Writers have the power to inspire young minds and encourage their growth and creativity.
This quote by Isaac Asimov emphasizes the transformative role of writers in shaping the thoughts and imaginations of young individuals. By engaging young people through literature, writers can plant ideas and inspirations that have the potential to grow and develop into something significant over time, ultimately contributing to the evolution of their creative and intellectual capacities.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of youth education, one might quote, 'It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people...'
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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