Isaac Asimov Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• 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 its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Mean, Democracies Have

  "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

• 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 centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Home, School

  "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Asimov's New guide to science”, Basic Books (AZ)

• 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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Cutting, Science

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

• 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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

• The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

  Isaac Asimov

  Mean, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

  "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

• Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a good grasp of science. The ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, questions of diet and heredity. All require scientific literacy. Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate? The whole premise of democracy is that it is safe to leave important questions to the court of public opinion - but is it safe to leave them to the court of public ignorance?

  Isaac Asimov

  Rain, Ignorance, Science

  "Combatting U.S. Scientific Illiteracy" by Isaac Asimov, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1989.

• 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

  Believe, Ignorance, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.8, Spectra

• 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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  "The New Hugo Winners: Award Winning Science Fiction Stories". Volume 1, p. 215, 1989.

• Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Knowing, Deep Life

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

• To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

  Isaac Asimov

  Running, Ignorance, Mean

• Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Ignorance

• 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. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The New Hugo Winners". Book by Isaac Asimov et al., p. 215, 1989.

• Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Ignorance, Danger

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.8, Spectra

• There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, May, Today

  "The 'Threat' Of Creationism" by Isaac Asimov, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

• It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Intuition, Cover Ups

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.377, Spectra

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