To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ...… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share
