Asimov Quote?

[Barbara Need]

>Thanks to Barbara and Ben for their very quick replies.
>
>When I came up empty-handed in my own searches, it occurred to me that this
>may well be, as Ben suggests, apocryphal and of fairly recent origin.
>
>How about this, then:  might this be someone's clumsy paraphrasing of a
>larger observation made by Asimov?

The thing is that I have the feeling I have read this in Asimov,
somewhere! It sounded familiar when I saw your message. Maybe I
should do some rereading!

Barbara

Barbara Need
UChicago

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