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 ASIMOVAt odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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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 intelligent man is never bored.
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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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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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There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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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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Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
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If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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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 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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