“I fear my ignorance.”

— Isaac Asimov , book The Gods Themselves

Section 3 “...contend in vain?”, Chapter 3 (p. 187)
The Gods Themselves (1972)

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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