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.”
ISAAC ASIMOVFeminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of 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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My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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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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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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People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
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I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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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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