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

Source: Isaac Asimov and Jason A. Shulman’s “Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Questions” (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), p. 281

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

Source: Isaac Asimov and Jason A. Shulman’s “Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Questions” (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), page: 281.

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Source: This quote is from “The Descent of Man” (1871) by Charles Robert Darwin; Volume: 1, page: 3. Complete Sentence: It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, Read More…