The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Isaac Asimov
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About Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction. His work spans nine out of the ten categories of t…
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, …
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if w…
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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 ot…
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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…
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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…
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.