"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-Isaac Asimov
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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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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
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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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"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
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"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."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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