Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knoweldge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too. - Isaac Asimov

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. - Isaac Asimov