“No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth.”

—  Isaac Asimov, book The Currents of Space

Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 11 “The Captain” (p. 114)

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

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