The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
ISAAC ASIMOVThe 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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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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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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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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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.
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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