If you learned something from reading or watching Asimov and you gained some knowledge and wisdom by doing so, that would make you more intelligent, no?
The clarity of his thought is admirable. You can tell that this man had not only knowledge but the needed intelligence to be able to see the whole picture at once.
What a wonderful interviewer Bill Moyers is! He asks his questions and actually allows Isaac Asimov answer without interruption! I wish more were this fabulous, intelligent, and courteous! I love Isaac Asimov! He is sorely missed, but he gave us and left us sooo much!
I have loved his writings for many years and it is just now that I hear his voice and see him in a video. He's long gone and here I am seeing this great man thanks to this rudimentary tool of the future global library, expressing his ideas I have already read about somewhere else. And I am so glad that he's never gone.
Just started reading Foundation and I think it's very interesting, like a mix of Game of Thrones and Star Trek, except way before those. involving politics.
My statement was not intended to analyze Mr. Asimov's opinions about religion. It was merely intended to compliment him with respect to his eloquence, particularily when speaking about such volatile topics.
For Asimov to suggest that compromise exists on one side is substantially, though not completely, disingenuous. The Catholic Church has maintained for decades that evolution occurred or, at least, is compatible with Christian theology and, therefore, not adverse to the belief in God.
Me parece admirable este gran señor, como me encantaría que estuviese vivo para escuchar su opinión sobre temas más precisos de hoy en día, esto ya se siente un poco tras... pero no deja de ser un deleite
not precisely; he predicted world population to be 6.5 billion in 2000, I just looked it up on a UN website and it was actually just over 6 billion. I wonder if this was due to birth limits in China? - I didn't do that much research.
“People knew that they would die before they could see the changes that would happen in the next century so it would be nice to imagine what it might be”
Improved thought comes from reading books, not by reading religious texts or apologetics crafted through biases which idolize perspectives and actions that run contrary to the laws of physics.
Asimov was a great communicator of history with emphasis on science history. I am a great fan and like his fiction too but can also readily see he has serious shortcomings vis-à-vis predictions of the future (but also recall that Yogi Berra said predictions of the future were the hardest kind of prediction). I was very sad when Asimov died, sadder still when Hitchens died and now there is no one (Dyson is not primarily a communicator).
One thought though. I don't think mother earth can't handle the people on her. I think earth if superior than puny human. One shake her body and we humans will come down to our knees
I find interesting Asimov's contradictions and confirmation bias (and the fact that other people here do not see them) in the first half of the interview According to him , 1) USA has the right "he hopes" to "democratize" the world even though USA is not a Democracy but a republic . While Soviet union does not have the right to "communize" the world , and religion does not have the right to evangelize the world . Is not this applying double standards ? If propaganda is bad , all kinds of propaganda are bad. 2) "Science"( meaning low level science as opposed to true scientists) can propagate their false beliefs( pseudo scientific findings that were now proven wrong such as phrenology) in schools but religion cannot do the same in schools but should do it in churches. why? 3) He said that the evolutionists should tell to people what evolution is and people should decide on their own but the christians could make the same claim That they made missions to teach about jesus and then people could freely decide. " but they cant , creationism is not a science" he says which I agree . But if dogmatism should be in specific institures why universities have taught and teach dogmatic ideas then ? So Asimof is right about religious dogmatism and confirmation bias but fails to see his own dogmatism and confirmation bias. Also Asimov also propagates false historical "facts" . The Library of Alexandria was not destroyed by the Arabs . It was first burned by Julius Cesar while he tried to conquer Egypt . After that a big part of it was restored , But the on 400 AD after the Decrees of Theodosius "the Great" every non christian art(statues, paintings , temples or books , scientific , poetry , philosophy were destroyed . The Library of Alexandria had 5 milllion books . While when Umar supposedly destroyed the library the library supposedly had 54 000. But even that destruction makes no sense because Muslims save guarded books and restored the ancient knowledge creating similar libraries with the one of Alexandria . So Asimov seems to be dogmatic , misinformed and biased . Like he accuses the christians to be On the second half of the interview is he explains everything greatly which shows that his bias is mostly related to religion and scientism .
Moyer asks softball questions. The interview with Heffner was far more provocative. In essence, Asimov seemed to have advocated gender equality as a means of population control. Yet earlier in the interview, he dismissed the necessity of religion for moral conduct. Hence, he revealed his propensity for psychological manipulation as a means of interfering with the natural inclination of humanity to procreate. And it appears to have rendered no effect upon his conscience.
Well, to not want to bring people into understanding what the Creator has been asking from us will ultimately only bring destruction to the world. It is ignorance and defiance to see that you can commit either good or bad deeds. Its pure foolishness. Asimov is just another guy full of ego, taking himself as a guru, wanting the appraisal of others, basically calling people into idolatry towards his person and own doctrine. The world has seen millions of people like him, who refuse to assess the truth that God is, superior to all of us and that none of us is greater than one another, only God is. Just like the commandments of God are perfection, and the very ideal vision of a future made out of happiness for each and everyone as well as the collective whole. It is the idea that each and everyone acts accordingly to what is good, without malice, without the desire for personal gain over the manipulation of others or the environment in which we live in. The world has never seen such an age, but this age is what each and everyone carries as a hope to see one day, heaven that is. All the good things Yeshua the messiah, whom we call Jesus Christ has spoken of : the absence of war, the absence of hardship of any sort, the knowledge of all things, pure pleasure out of what is good for one as much as for others, the rejoicing into serving a cause that benefits both self and others, tranquility, peace with every word and every step, the total absence of fear, of poverty. Thats the greatest idea and it comes from no one else but God. No one else can bring everybody together but the very teachings that God gives freely. Religion has nothing to do with God, nor that believing in God is a blind faith, for nothing exists unless it is made, and seeing the whole creation in front of our eyes everyday, including the experience of living we have been given, one cannot deny the existence of God, but even beyond the matter, the spiritual things and wisdom that are written, no man can write nor think such things. All the prophets who were sent to speak, none of them were related to one another, living in different places, living in different times,band yet all prophesied, nor in their name, but all giving credit to the master of the universe, who only reveals visions and words to those he specifically chose. Few can accept this truth, that these men have no glory for themselves having said such things, because none of them were speaking of their own. Even the great Moses, he was appointed and did what he did because he was called to do so. Even Moses refused and feared people would think he’s inventing the existence of another identity, making his alter ego speak, like mohammed did with “allah” in his coran, the product of jealousy from the arabs, the descendants of Ishmael, son of Abraham, brother to Isaac, son of Abraham, jewish. Having read all subjects of the matter, being filled with the desire and thirst for the truth regarding this life, nothing ever came closer to what one can read in the Bible, the Torah AND the New Testament. There is absolutely nothing wrong into pushing Christianity, nor that God God asks for money or any specific cult or tradition like the religious people do, by corrupting the word of God and setting themselves up as a false authority over it, when no one owns the word of God, because it belongs to everyone. Popes, high priests, they mean nothing, all they ever did was corrupting the word of God. If one reads the Bible, he will understand the truth. Fools live by prejudices, having never read the Bible and still speaking against it as if it was nothing that every man should avoid, when clearly, it is exactly what one owes to be doing in order to free himself, and then to give meaning into all of this. Asimov ? Who has time to read science fiction, blind believes of idealized doomed and selfish visions that can only profit the one who wrote them. Those that truly believe in God cannot care less about the self, for the self if useless unless it is surrounded by peers who think alike, to go into the direction of peace and wisdom, ensuring all goodness would come out of it. Judeo christian values have shaped the world, giving it so much, in terms of art, architecture, knowledge, science, food, shelter, all good things, great gifts given by God, and yet, a few from amongst us wanted to take power over these things, corrupting it, twisting it, desecrating it, trying to erase the idea of God, and putting Man in front of it. Yes, Man with a big M, for even in our days, the ghost of feminism will find its own doom. And you know what proves that the plan of God is perfect ? It is that He doesnt need to do anything, He’s just waiting for us to come to our senses. And when people do, people will love the world, and the world will love it back, and God will visit us, as it was prophesied. And we will be gathered will the ones we lost, the ones we never met, the ones we never got to know. I believe in it, with all my heart, that everything will fall into the will of God, that people will abandon these philosophies of man, that only lead into sewage. Its not a matter of how, how is taken care of, its only matter of when, and we can do such thing as to hasten this great thing we all secretly hope to see unfold before us, and even getting to live it, all it takes is the abandonment of the ego, and giving back to God what is God’s, meaning the intelligence, the wisdom and everything else that we call good. Of yeah, there will be writers in heaven, of science fiction books, great books to read, great movies to watch, great games to play, good food and good drinks to drink. But before this happens, humanity still needs to work towards it. It is part of us, God put it into the idea of Man long before he created Adam. Eve was into Adam before she came out of him, and the same applies to us all, to us all. One family, one God.
Brillante!!! Sólido, firme, claro, honesto. Único. Mil gracias por compartir!!! 📚🤓❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'm so impressed with Asimov's responses, but the questions are also brilliant.
Under rated comment . these two were well met
An excellent explainer. A true example of human intelligence and reason. This man should be required reading/listening in all schools. Period.
captainpharaoh is so amazing allí ideas of Asimov. That i feel how is impossible born another man like him
Jeez he is one of the smartest human beings I have ever heard... Thanks for posting this!!!
Well, he did have an IQ of 160.
Immediately after reading or watching Isaac Asimov I feel more intelligent.
I'm not, of course, but that's how I feel.
If you learned something from reading or watching Asimov and you gained some knowledge and wisdom by doing so, that would make you more intelligent, no?
The fool thinks they are a genius. The genius thinks they are a fool.
the simple fact that you read, shows your intelligence... these days
Give yourself some credit. You've learned something from Isaac Asimov. That makes you more intelligent.
This is quite possibly my favorite author. His Foundation series is one of the best things I've ever read, if not the best.
What is your favourite book off all time
Check out his R Daneel Olivaw trilogy. They make good mysteries with robots in them. It’s an excellent prequel series to the Foundation series.
People like dr.Isaac is the people we need this in our age. I can't count the wise quotes in this interview. Rip Isaac.
The clarity of his thought is admirable. You can tell that this man had not only knowledge but the needed intelligence to be able to see the whole picture at once.
What a wonderful interviewer Bill Moyers is! He asks his questions and actually allows Isaac Asimov answer without interruption! I wish more were this fabulous, intelligent, and courteous! I love Isaac Asimov! He is sorely missed, but he gave us and left us sooo much!
I have loved his writings for many years and it is just now that I hear his voice and see him in a video. He's long gone and here I am seeing this great man thanks to this rudimentary tool of the future global library, expressing his ideas I have already read about somewhere else. And I am so glad that he's never gone.
Ometecuhtli I'm afraid that eventually videos like these will be lost in the mists of time.
The galactic encyclopedia.
jeez! Dr. Isaac was absolutely amazing. Really, really thanks to share with us this value video.
Brilliant man. He touches on everything and everything that's currently wrong with our world.
Much respect for this man's ideas.
I am not an enemy of religion , but I am a friend of the truth..
And Bill had me pulling my freakin hair out from him trying to find some way to get Issac to reconcile the short comings of faith based beliefe.
Just started reading Foundation and I think it's very interesting, like a mix of Game of Thrones and Star Trek, except way before those. involving politics.
wiisalute check out his Robot series. They're amazing too.
Dopest sideburns in the biz sonnnn
Thank you for posting this Vid! Awesome!
What a wonderful human being, one of the few people I admire.
Science is indeed complex and changing. It evolves as we learn more about our universe.
Asimov does very well in diplomatically navigating the fact that religious dogma is unhealthy.
My statement was not intended to analyze Mr. Asimov's opinions about religion. It was merely intended to compliment him with respect to his eloquence, particularily when speaking about such volatile topics.
Mr. Coombs, I choose to extend to you the exact same courtesy that I extended to Mr. Asimov, in not commenting upon your opinion.
"Do unto others as you would have others do to you". The Golden Rule, which is just about all the ethics necessary.
For Asimov to suggest that compromise exists on one side is substantially, though not completely, disingenuous. The Catholic Church has maintained for decades that evolution occurred or, at least, is compatible with Christian theology and, therefore, not adverse to the belief in God.
Exactly. He is in favor of people thinking for themselves, not accepting dogma. He believes in rational thought, something we need more of today.
Here before the debate...
Me parece admirable este gran señor, como me encantaría que estuviese vivo para escuchar su opinión sobre temas más precisos de hoy en día, esto ya se siente un poco tras... pero no deja de ser un deleite
What a man ahead of his time
Love listening to him talk.
He is so brilliant!
Thank you for posting this ! Truly awesome !!
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Isaac eres grande entre los grandes ! gracias !
This is from nearly 30 years ago and things only got worse.
not precisely; he predicted world population to be 6.5 billion in 2000, I just looked it up on a UN website and it was actually just over 6 billion. I wonder if this was due to birth limits in China? - I didn't do that much research.
Because the people most capable of establishing such worldwide cooperation are the least charmed by the idea of doing it unselfishly?
“People knew that they would die before they could see the changes that would happen in the next century so it would be nice to imagine what it might be”
What an amazing human being..
Today I celebrate Asimov
Now, me too. 17:24, Wednesday 22 of February 2017, Greece
me too, thursday 17 of August 2017, USA
18:46 and today 8 billion. we are f*cked.
We should celebrate a Childless Couples Day.
The reason he was three times smarter than most is because he had an extra brain imbedded in each sideburn! 🤓
Lo conocí por la trilogía de la fundación
A scientist should do his best to disprove his own findings. Now that's solid!
As relevent today in 2023 as in 1992
Dudes a CS2(GO) skin, what a legacy
We have failed.
It's as we were mice in the whole Heaven or Hell system...
Brilliant, as always
“My local priest said Big Bang and Evolution are just theories”
Just one small correction: "Ces vidéo ne sont pas à moi."
The most important thing you can pass on to future generations is the truth
I very much like his personality.
Improved thought comes from reading books, not by reading religious texts or apologetics crafted through biases which idolize perspectives and actions that run contrary to the laws of physics.
Isaac asimov's FOUNDATION SERIES.. MADE MY LIFE. 😍😍😍😍
Saludos desde Querétaro, México. ¿En qué año hicieron esa entrevista?
armanbalde dijo que faltaban doce años para el 2000
4:42 interesting confirmation bias example
I don't see it. He expressely notify that it's his way of thinking before expressing his opinion.
Asimov was a great communicator of history with emphasis on science history. I am a great fan and like his fiction too but can also readily see he has serious shortcomings vis-à-vis predictions of the future (but also recall that Yogi Berra said predictions of the future were the hardest kind of prediction). I was very sad when Asimov died, sadder still when Hitchens died and now there is no one (Dyson is not primarily a communicator).
how about Neil DeGrasse Tyson?
5:13
17:00 this would be a really interesting thing now
uhh... I like him :)
very interesting
Asimov!
To bad you did not live to see 2019
Even his name is intelligent
Good ideology..
tune in
He sounds like Bernie sanders
Who is Bernie Sanders, i don't know him
@@hugopalma145 I think he's a colonel who sells chicken. Not to be confused with colonel Angus.
Creationist Moyers pretending to be able to reason with the genius Asimov is laughable!
2024 , i love this guy , ❤
About the reinforest . The r
Fungy world is being killed by killing the brazilian jungle.
17:38 a time when USA was expected to be the leader of the world on environment protection.
why they are talking about RELIGION?
you came here for 8:04 thank me later
Johnny Esmond I came here for the whole interview.
Hosted by George Bush Sr.
Has great insight, but he couldn’t be more wrong about natalism. I’d have to believe he would have changed his position with the most recent evidence.
One thought though. I don't think mother earth can't handle the people on her. I think earth if superior than puny human. One shake her body and we humans will come down to our knees
Depends on what you mean by "handle".
Gee . It's not about women's rights , but about lower birth rates 😂.
I find interesting Asimov's contradictions and confirmation bias (and the fact that other people here do not see them) in the first half of the interview
According to him ,
1) USA has the right "he hopes" to "democratize" the world even though USA is not a Democracy but a republic . While Soviet union does not have the right to "communize" the world , and religion does not have the right to evangelize the world . Is not this applying double standards ? If propaganda is bad , all kinds of propaganda are bad.
2) "Science"( meaning low level science as opposed to true scientists) can propagate their false beliefs( pseudo scientific findings that were now proven wrong such as phrenology) in schools but religion cannot do the same in schools but should do it in churches. why?
3) He said that the evolutionists should tell to people what evolution is and people should decide on their own but the christians could make the same claim That they made missions to teach about jesus and then people could freely decide. " but they cant , creationism is not a science" he says which I agree . But if dogmatism should be in specific institures why universities have taught and teach dogmatic ideas then ?
So Asimof is right about religious dogmatism and confirmation bias but fails to see his own dogmatism and confirmation bias.
Also Asimov also propagates false historical "facts" . The Library of Alexandria was not destroyed by the Arabs . It was first burned by Julius Cesar while he tried to conquer Egypt . After that a big part of it was restored ,
But the on 400 AD after the Decrees of Theodosius "the Great" every non christian art(statues, paintings , temples or books , scientific , poetry , philosophy were destroyed .
The Library of Alexandria had 5 milllion books .
While when Umar supposedly destroyed the library the library supposedly had 54 000.
But even that destruction makes no sense because Muslims save guarded books and restored the ancient knowledge creating similar libraries with the one of Alexandria .
So Asimov seems to be dogmatic , misinformed and biased . Like he accuses the christians to be
On the second half of the interview is he explains everything greatly which shows that his bias is mostly related to religion and scientism .
Jordan Peterson is just another gramophone mind of Asimov. And many others. Not sure if its a good thing or bad. Convince me
Fukushima
If Bernie Sanders and Arnold Schwarzenegger had a kid
Okay but what about Jesus?
Moyer asks softball questions. The interview with Heffner was far more provocative. In essence, Asimov seemed to have advocated gender equality as a means of population control. Yet earlier in the interview, he dismissed the necessity of religion for moral conduct. Hence, he revealed his propensity for psychological manipulation as a means of interfering with the natural inclination of humanity to procreate. And it appears to have rendered no effect upon his conscience.
You read what you want to be true.
Gagarinone But am I wrong?
Yes. You read what you want to be true.
People living the good life likes to "procreate", without making any babies.
Gagarinone How is one possible without the other?
@@joenelson3037
Please specify your question!
Well, to not want to bring people into understanding what the Creator has been asking from us will ultimately only bring destruction to the world. It is ignorance and defiance to see that you can commit either good or bad deeds. Its pure foolishness. Asimov is just another guy full of ego, taking himself as a guru, wanting the appraisal of others, basically calling people into idolatry towards his person and own doctrine. The world has seen millions of people like him, who refuse to assess the truth that God is, superior to all of us and that none of us is greater than one another, only God is. Just like the commandments of God are perfection, and the very ideal vision of a future made out of happiness for each and everyone as well as the collective whole.
It is the idea that each and everyone acts accordingly to what is good, without malice, without the desire for personal gain over the manipulation of others or the environment in which we live in.
The world has never seen such an age, but this age is what each and everyone carries as a hope to see one day, heaven that is. All the good things Yeshua the messiah, whom we call Jesus Christ has spoken of : the absence of war, the absence of hardship of any sort, the knowledge of all things, pure pleasure out of what is good for one as much as for others, the rejoicing into serving a cause that benefits both self and others, tranquility, peace with every word and every step, the total absence of fear, of poverty. Thats the greatest idea and it comes from no one else but God. No one else can bring everybody together but the very teachings that God gives freely.
Religion has nothing to do with God, nor that believing in God is a blind faith, for nothing exists unless it is made, and seeing the whole creation in front of our eyes everyday, including the experience of living we have been given, one cannot deny the existence of God, but even beyond the matter, the spiritual things and wisdom that are written, no man can write nor think such things.
All the prophets who were sent to speak, none of them were related to one another, living in different places, living in different times,band yet all prophesied, nor in their name, but all giving credit to the master of the universe, who only reveals visions and words to those he specifically chose.
Few can accept this truth, that these men have no glory for themselves having said such things, because none of them were speaking of their own. Even the great Moses, he was appointed and did what he did because he was called to do so. Even Moses refused and feared people would think he’s inventing the existence of another identity, making his alter ego speak, like mohammed did with “allah” in his coran, the product of jealousy from the arabs, the descendants of Ishmael, son of Abraham, brother to Isaac, son of Abraham, jewish.
Having read all subjects of the matter, being filled with the desire and thirst for the truth regarding this life, nothing ever came closer to what one can read in the Bible, the Torah AND the New Testament.
There is absolutely nothing wrong into pushing Christianity, nor that God God asks for money or any specific cult or tradition like the religious people do, by corrupting the word of God and setting themselves up as a false authority over it, when no one owns the word of God, because it belongs to everyone. Popes, high priests, they mean nothing, all they ever did was corrupting the word of God.
If one reads the Bible, he will understand the truth. Fools live by prejudices, having never read the Bible and still speaking against it as if it was nothing that every man should avoid, when clearly, it is exactly what one owes to be doing in order to free himself, and then to give meaning into all of this.
Asimov ? Who has time to read science fiction, blind believes of idealized doomed and selfish visions that can only profit the one who wrote them.
Those that truly believe in God cannot care less about the self, for the self if useless unless it is surrounded by peers who think alike, to go into the direction of peace and wisdom, ensuring all goodness would come out of it.
Judeo christian values have shaped the world, giving it so much, in terms of art, architecture, knowledge, science, food, shelter, all good things, great gifts given by God, and yet, a few from amongst us wanted to take power over these things, corrupting it, twisting it, desecrating it, trying to erase the idea of God, and putting Man in front of it. Yes, Man with a big M, for even in our days, the ghost of feminism will find its own doom.
And you know what proves that the plan of God is perfect ? It is that He doesnt need to do anything, He’s just waiting for us to come to our senses.
And when people do, people will love the world, and the world will love it back, and God will visit us, as it was prophesied. And we will be gathered will the ones we lost, the ones we never met, the ones we never got to know.
I believe in it, with all my heart, that everything will fall into the will of God, that people will abandon these philosophies of man, that only lead into sewage. Its not a matter of how, how is taken care of, its only matter of when, and we can do such thing as to hasten this great thing we all secretly hope to see unfold before us, and even getting to live it, all it takes is the abandonment of the ego, and giving back to God what is God’s, meaning the intelligence, the wisdom and everything else that we call good.
Of yeah, there will be writers in heaven, of science fiction books, great books to read, great movies to watch, great games to play, good food and good drinks to drink. But before this happens, humanity still needs to work towards it. It is part of us, God put it into the idea of Man long before he created Adam. Eve was into Adam before she came out of him, and the same applies to us all, to us all. One family, one God.