(August 9, 2025 at 3:23 pm)Rizen Wrote: “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 Asimov
Asimov also said:
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
He was from an earlier generation of intellectuals, which included Richard Hofstadter and Christopher Lasch. They knew that for a good society science is necessary but not sufficient. Science doesn't teach us wisdom. Asimov would include people who only value science, not good literature or philosophy, among the anti-intellectuals.
He wrote books on Shakespeare, Paradise Lost, the Bible, and many aspects of history.
