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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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" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. "

" All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. "

" The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. "

" Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. "

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" It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "

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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. "

" It is not only the living who are killed in war. "

" Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. "

" 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. "

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

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" The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' "

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

" No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. "

" I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. "

" Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. "

" John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. "

" I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. "

" Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. "

" People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. "

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

" Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. "