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 AsimovTo 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 AsimovHuman beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
Isaac Asimov