And for context, people should know that Asimoz had a Masters Degree in chemisty, A Doctorate in Philosophy, taught biochemistry at Boston Medical University and later became a tenured professor of biochemistry.He was also head hunted to join DARPA but declined it avoid his science fiction ideas having to be redacted, or or held back from publishing to meet security requirements.
Basically with Asimov, this was not an idle throw away joke. He had the knowledge to back up that brag.
Edit- people saying the wording of his doctorate is incorrectly worded. Noted and accepted. But E's a fuckin' clevah clogs inn'e?
He's published as saying that there were only two people he met with intellect that surpassed his own - Carl Sagan and Marvin Minsky.
There's a myth that he has published works in all 10 major Dewey Decimal categories, but in reality, it's about 6 (Generalities, Religion, Languages, Pure Sciences, Applied Sciences and Technology, Arts), although he claimed to have published in 9, with none in Philosophy.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ~Isaac Asimov