"Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it."

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Source : "Flatlander" by Larry Niven, 1967.

Larry Niven

#Dangerous Quotes

“Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.”
“Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?”
“Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.”
“Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.”
“I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.”
“No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frasier, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.”
“I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.”
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”

Source : Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

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