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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding it...more

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

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...We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the the...more

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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 ourselve...more

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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

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One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful ...more

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding it...more

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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unr...more

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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.Q. Can you prove that this mathemat...more

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The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they under...more

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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the cent...more

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What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows:"A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money."When I heard t...more