SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program? - Isaac Asimov

Nowadays, of course, we are taught that the flat-Earth theory is wrong; that it is all wrong, absolutely. But it isn't. The curvature of the Earth is nearly 0 per mile, so that although the flat-Earth theory is wrong, it happens to be nearly right. That's why the theory lasted so long.

Pero aunque la esclavitud fue abolida como sistema legal y los estados antaño esclavistas tuvieron que aceptar este hecho, éstos buscaron la manera de tomar otras medidas que les aseguraran que los negros seguirían siendo lo más parecidos posible a los esclavos, es decir, una fuente de mano de obra barata sin derechos político y con escasos derechos humanos

No matter how various the subject matter I write on, I was a science-fiction writer first and it is as a science-fiction writer that I want to be identified.