Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
ISAAC ASIMOVYou don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
More Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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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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The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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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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There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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