Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
ISAAC ASIMOVUncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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The intelligent man is never bored.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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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 democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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