艾薩克・阿西莫夫
Isaac Asimov

context: zh_tw: 阿西莫夫興趣廣泛，反應在晚年致力參與的大小團體上，他熱愛吉伯特與蘇利文的輕歌劇，加入推理作家雷克斯・史陶德筆下人物尼洛・伍爾夫的愛好團體伍爾夫協會，也是福爾摩斯愛好組織貝克街游擊隊的著名會員。從 1985 年到 1992 年逝世為止，艾西莫夫擔任美國人文協會會長，後來繼任的是作家朋友庫爾特・馮內古特。他也是影集《星艦奇航記》之父吉恩・羅登貝瑞的摯交，在拍攝《星艦迷航記》電影版期間，給予不少有用的建議。
en: Asimov was an able public speaker and was regularly paid to give talks about science. He was a frequent fixture at science fiction conventions, where he was friendly and approachable. He patiently answered tens of thousands of questions and other mail with postcards and was pleased to give autographs. He was of medium height (5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)), stocky, with – in his later years – "mutton-chop" sideburns, and a distinct New York accent. He took to wearing bolo ties after his wife Janet objected to his clip-on bow ties. His physical dexterity was very poor. He never learned to swim or ride a bicycle; however, he did learn to drive a car after he moved to Boston. In his humor book Asimov Laughs Again, he describes Boston driving as "anarchy on wheels."Asimov's wide interests included his participation in his later years in organizations devoted to the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and in The Wolfe Pack, a group of devotees of the Nero Wolfe mysteries written by Rex Stout. Many of his short stories mention or quote Gilbert and Sullivan. He was a prominent member of The Baker Street Irregulars, the leading Sherlock Holmes society, for whom he wrote an essay arguing that Professor Moriarty's work "The Dynamics of An Asteroid" involved the willful destruction of an ancient civilized planet. He was also a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of his fictional group of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. He later used his essay on Moriarty's work as the basis for a Black Widowers story, "The Ultimate Crime", which appeared in More Tales of the Black Widowers.In 1984, the American Humanist Association (AHA) named him the Humanist of the Year. He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. From 1985 until his death in 1992, he served as president of the AHA, an honorary appointment. His successor was his friend and fellow writer Kurt Vonnegut. He was also a close friend of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and earned a screen credit as "special science consultant" on Star Trek: The Motion Picture for advice he gave during production.Asimov was a founding member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, CSICOP (now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) and is listed in its Pantheon of Skeptics. In a discussion with James Randi at CSICon 2016 regarding the founding of CSICOP, Kendrick Frazier said that Asimov was "a key figure in the Skeptical movement who is less well known and appreciated today, but was very much in the public eye back then." He said that Asimov being associated with CSICOP "gave it immense status and authority" in his eyes.Asimov described Carl Sagan as one of only two people he ever met whose intellect surpassed his own. The other, he claimed, was the computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert Marvin Minsky. Asimov was a long-time member and vice president of Mensa International, albeit reluctantly; he described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs".After his father died in 1969, Asimov annually contributed to a Judah Asimov Scholarship Fund at Brandeis University.
qas: question: zh_tw: 這個人什麼時候不在了？
en: When was this person no longer alive?
answers: zh_tw: text: 1992
en: text: 1992

context: zh_tw: 艾西莫夫是人文主義和理性主義者。他不反對宗教信仰，但是曾經多次斥責迷信和偽科學可能導致劣幣驅逐良幣的後果。在他幼年時期，父母奉行東正教猶太傳統，不過比起在彼得羅維奇來得寬鬆，教條沒有強壓在艾西莫夫身上。也由於他的成長過程中沒有受到太多的宗教影響，長大後他認為聖經描繪的故事是希伯來神話，就如同伊利亞特是希臘神話一樣。艾西莫夫多年號稱無神論者，不過他自覺名不副實，解釋他只是不相信的比相信的多，之後他發現用「人文主義」來形容自己更為恰當。
en: Isaac Asimov was an atheist, a humanist, and a rationalist. He did not oppose religious conviction in others, but he frequently railed against superstitious and pseudoscientific beliefs that tried to pass themselves off as genuine science. During his childhood, his father and mother observed Orthodox Jewish traditions, though not as stringently as they had in Petrovichi; they did not, however, force their beliefs upon young Isaac. Thus, he grew up without strong religious influences, coming to believe that the Torah represented Hebrew mythology in the same way that the Iliad recorded Greek mythology. When he was 13, he chose not to have a bar mitzvah. As his books Treasury of Humor and Asimov Laughs Again record, Asimov was willing to tell jokes involving God, Satan, the Garden of Eden, Jerusalem, and other religious topics, expressing the viewpoint that a good joke can do more to provoke thought than hours of philosophical discussion.For a brief while, his father worked in the local synagogue to enjoy the familiar surroundings and, as Isaac put it, "shine as a learned scholar" versed in the sacred writings. This scholarship was a seed for his later authorship and publication of Asimov's Guide to the Bible, an analysis of the historic foundations for both the Old and New Testaments. For many years, Asimov called himself an atheist; however, he considered the term somewhat inadequate, as it described what he did not believe rather than what he did. Eventually, he described himself as a "humanist" and considered that term more practical. He did, however, continue to identify himself as a nonobservant Jew, as stated in his introduction to Jack Dann's anthology of Jewish science fiction, Wandering Stars: "I attend no services and follow no ritual and have never undergone that curious puberty rite, the bar mitzvah. It doesn't matter. I am Jewish."When asked in an interview in 1982 if he was an atheist, Asimov replied,
qas: question: zh_tw: 在用 “人文主義者” 來形容自己之前，艾西莫夫號稱什麼？
en: Before describing himself as a humanist, how did Asimov refer to himself?
answers: zh_tw: text: 無神論者
en: text: atheist