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
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
“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
There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about… — 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
“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
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point,… — 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
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
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am… — 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
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise… — 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
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am… — 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 Image
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 Image
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
