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 ASIMOVLife is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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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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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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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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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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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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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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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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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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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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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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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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When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
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Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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