Sunday, January 2, 2011

Meandering . . .

Today is the birthday of Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992), science fiction author and professor of biochemistry.

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
- Isaac Asimov

"Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely."
- Isaac Asimov

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
- Isaac Asimov

"We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood."
- Isaac Asimov

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