There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having … - Isaac Asimov

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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Isaac Asimov

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

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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 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.

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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.

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

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I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.

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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

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