The Relativity of Wrong is a 1988 essay collection by Isaac Asimov, which takes its title from the most ambitious essay it contains. Like most of the essays Asimov wrote for F&SF; Magazine, each one in The Relativity of Wrong begins with an autobiographical anecdote which serves to set the mood. Several of the essays form a sequence explaining the discovery and uses of isotopes; the introductory passages in these essays recount Asimov's not parti...
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The Relativity of Wrong is a 1988 essay collection by Isaac Asimov, which takes its title from the most ambitious essay it contains. Like most of the essays Asimov wrote for F&SF; Magazine, each one in The Relativity of Wrong begins with an autobiographical anecdote which serves to set the mood. Several of the essays form a sequence explaining the discovery and uses of isotopes; the introductory passages in these essays recount Asimov's not particularly pleasant personal relationship with Harold C. Urey, whom he met at Columbia University.
He also describes seeing the film Amadeus, which he enjoyed and admired extravagantly. In the cinema, he told his wife Janet Asimov that F. Murray Abraham was sure to win an Academy Award for playing Salieri. Later, after Abraham had in fact won, he and Asimov met, and Asimov subjected Abraham to a continuous flood of praise.
In the title essay, Asimov argues that there exist degrees of wrongness, and being wrong in one way is not necessarily as bad...
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