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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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When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

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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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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 oursel...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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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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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