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—Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.

— Gregory Benford Aspects (2015)

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Would an alien outsider judge America’s performance by My Lai and Wounded Knee or by Lincoln and Jefferson?

The Sunborn (2005)

If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it.

Timescape (1980)

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

Timescape (1980)

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Foundation's Fear (1997)

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

In the Ocean of Night (1977)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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