Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — 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
What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter… — 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
One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — 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
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