American - Scientist | January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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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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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
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