Isaac Asimov - Ignorance Quotes

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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.

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There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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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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Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. 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."

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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word intuition.

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