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According to Asimov, the premise was based on ideas set forth in Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and was invented spontaneously on his way to meet with editor John W. Campbell, with whom he developed the concept.
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According to Isaac Asimov, Gauss was once interrupted in the middle of a problem and told that his wife was dying.
According to the original Foundation Trilogy ( 1951 ), Asimov states ( by way of the Encyclopedia Galactica ), "... the impossibility of proper administration ... under the uninspired leadership of the later Emperors was a considerable factor in the Fall.
According to Asimov, many of the inhabitants of this sector were tall Northerner yellowhairs, implying that they were people of what we call Nordic ancestry.
According to his widow Janet Asimov ( in her biography of Isaac, It's Been a Good Life ), he had no idea how to continue after Foundation and Earth, so he started writing the prequels.
According to his autobiographical writings Asimov included the First Law's " inaction " clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem " The Latest Decalogue ", which includes the satirical lines " Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive ".
According to the first book's introduction Allen devised the New Laws in discussion with Asimov himself.
According to the foreword in Robot Visions, Asimov was approached to write a story titled " Bicentennial Man " for a science fiction collection, along with a number of other authors who would do the same, in honor of the bicentennial of the United States.
According to his autobiography In Memory Yet Green, Asimov modeled the Mule's physical appearance on Leonard Meisel, a friend at the World War II-era Navy Yard in Philadelphia.
According to Isaac Asimov, who considered Gunther " a good friend ," Gunther " felt that civilization was a product of the Old World and could not flourish indigenously in the New.
When several readers wrote letters of protest to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about its 1983 publication of Bishop's novella " The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis ," Isaac Asimov himself wrote an editorial defending the work and the editor's decision to publish it.
* Close Encounters With the Deity ( 1986 ), includes the novella “ The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis ” and thirteen stories from 1979-1986 with an introduction by Isaac Asimov
According to Asimov's autobiography, Campbell asked Asimov to write the story after discussing with him a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
According to Isaac Asimov, although Janet Asimov did 90 % of the work, his " name was wanted on the book for the betterment of sales he went over the manuscript and polished it a bit.
According to Isaac Asimov, although Janet Asimov did 90 % of the work, his " name was wanted on the book for the betterment of sales he went over the manuscript and polished it a bit.
According to N-Space, the wings and the method of self-propelled flying featured in the novel were suggested by Isaac Asimov.
According to his autobiography In Memory Yet Green, Asimov coined the name in imitation of UNIVAC, an early mainframe computer.
According to Asimov, a book named Murder at Frankfurt had been written, placing a fictional mystery story at the Frankfurt Book Fair ( Germany ).
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According to some non-cognitivist points of view, these sentences simply assume the false premise that ethical statements are either true or false.
According to a study conducted by Robert J. Sampson and Stephen W. Raudenbush, the premise that the broken windows theory operates on — that social disorder and crime are connected as part of a causal chain — is faulty.
According to William Law, Smith had made several proposals to Law's wife Jane, under the premise that Jane Law would enter a polyandrous marriage with Smith .. Law's wife later described Smith's proposals, saying that Smith had " asked her to give him half her love ; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband.
According to Asher, " TPR is based on the premise that the human brain has a biological program for acquiring any natural language on earth-including the sign language of the deaf ".
According to Adams, the premise of the game was inspired by a real-life experience.
According to this premise, variants between such regimes have a minor importance and the clashes counterposing their leaderships are just instrumental in supporting the interests of conflicting bureaucracies.
According to various industry websites ( such as www. Hollywood. com ), The Big Chill was somewhat similar in its basic " friends reuniting to reminisce about the good old days " premise to John Sayles ' earlier independent movie, Return of the Secaucus Seven, but has several major story and character differences.
According to Newsnight editor Peter Barron, some viewers questioned the premise of the interview ; that the new SNP government appeared to be picking a fight with London.
According to Pentecostal historian H. Vinson Synan, " the basic premise of Pentecostalism, that one may receive later effusions of the Spirit after initiation / conversion, can be clearly traced in Christian history to the beginnings of the rite of confirmation in the Western churches ".
According to the game premise, Zack gambles his winnings from the Dead or Alive 3 tournament at a casino.
According to Franklin, " he underlying premise of the new social order is that the only people fit to govern the state are those willing to sacrifice their lives for the state ".
According to the story's premise, if a golden token is inserted into the mouth of the jester's head on top of the tombstone of " Professor Ludwig von Tökkentäkker ", a haunted amusement park will appear after long absence.
According to Bouillier, the premise of his story was that " A woman who has left a man without saying why calls him years later and asks him to be the ' mystery guest ' at a birthday party thrown by the artist Sophie Calle.
According to this school, drawing its basic premise from the Pirenne thesis, the Roman world underwent a gradual ( though often violent ) series of transformations, morphing into the medieval world.
According to the Saint Paul Sunday website, the show's premise is, " What would it be like to hear the Juilliard String Quartet perform in your living room?
According to an essay by Christine R. Catron from the Museum of Broadcast Communications's Encyclopedia of Television, the decline in ratings for the show's last season is attributable to the fact that the show's premise had been fulfilled at the end of the previous season, when Allie accepted Bob Barsky's marriage proposal.
According to Gregg O. McCrary, the basic premise is that behavior reflects personality.
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According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.
According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.
According to the new theories, the nineteenth century corporate sovereign was `` sovereign '' in a quite new and different sense from his historical predecessors.
According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.
According to the medical examiner, she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..
According to the medical examiner she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..
According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.
According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.
According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.
According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.
According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 082 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950.
According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.
According to Plutarch's natural order of attribution of the vowels to the planets, alpha was connected with the Moon.
According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.
According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.
According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade deficit in 2006 was $ 1. 2 billion with growth in exports being largely flat.
According to the state-owned Armenpress news agency, the average monthly wage in Armenia for the first half of 2007 was 70, 700 drams ( about $ 210 USD ).
According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.
According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.
According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.
According to the archaeologists, the door was reused in a structure in Roman Egypt.
According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.
According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.
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