"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-Isaac Asimov
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.“
-Isaac Asimov
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"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
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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."
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"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, but the world as it will be."
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