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.
I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.
Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.
We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.
I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.
I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.
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