Now I want you to listen carefully. The blackness is emptin… - Isaac Asimov

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Now I want you to listen carefully. The blackness is emptiness — vast emptiness stretching out infinitely. The little, gleaming dots are huge masses of energy-filled matter. They are globes, some of them millions of miles in diameter — and for comparison, this station is only one mile across. They seem so tiny because they are incredibly far off.

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Isaac Asimov (c. 2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992) was a Russian-born American biochemist who was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, his works include the Foundation series and I, Robot.

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Alternative Names: Isaak Osimov • Paul French • Asimov • Isaak Ozimov • Itzhak Ozimov

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