Isaac Asimov

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has 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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Isaac Asimov, American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science.
(2 Jan 1920-1992)