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Knowledge Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we…
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
- I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but…
- Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and…
- 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 it…
- During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800,…
- Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
- Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions…
- To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
- Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they…
- No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if…
- The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
- The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
- Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not…
- [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room.…
- Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always…
- Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid…
- What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid…
- Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
- There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding…
- Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
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- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov