It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the value of personal narratives and the investigation of human emotions and motives.
Isaac Asimov highlights the importance of storytelling and the exploration of the complexities of human nature. He suggests that understanding the intricate dynamics of motives and emotions within personal or fictional narratives can provide deep insights into the human experience, making it a significant area of interest.
In practice
In a writing workshop, one might quote this to emphasize the significance of character development.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.
I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Freedom and slavery are mental states.
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
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