Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
ISAAC ASIMOVUncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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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 true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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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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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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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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The intelligent man is never bored.
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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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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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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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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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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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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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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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