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The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays

This book presents a compilation of more than one hundred essays, with the title essay employing a humorous combination of Tyrannosaurus, the mighty dinosaur species, and the concept of a prescription. The collection appears to embrace a tone of literary playfulness, using unexpected pairings of serious subjects with whimsical treatment. From the title alone, the work suggests an approach that finds humor in the collision of academic orscientific elements with everyday concepts, likely inviting readers to consider familiar topics from unconventional angles. The structure implies each essay may carry its own distinctive title, inviting curiosity about the various subjects explored throughout the collection. more

Author

Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov, born on January 2, 1920 in Poland and died on April 6, 1992 in the United States, was a renowned American science fiction author, science writer, and literary critic, known as the 'Father of Science Fiction'. His works covered a wide range of science fiction themes, including robots, space exploration, and time travel, and had a profound impact on science fiction literature and the popularization of science. more

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“When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.”

“Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!”