Through one of his profound quotes: “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them”, Isaac Asimov shows his perception for knowledge and ignorance as well as to what they lead. Based on his thought, the expansion of knowledge leads to expansion of problems while ignorance responds to smaller number of troubles and struggles. More knowledge causes more uncertainties and harder life whereas ignorance simplifies people’s way of living to such extent that there is no meaning in their existence.
Knowledge is the reflection of the things as they are, independently of our own subjective expectations and desires. Knowledge is the Reality, but, still, it may develop. .According to Asimov, the more we know, the more we understand that what we still don’t know is more than what we already know. As better we get to know the world around us, we see its complicity and profundity. With the expansion of our knowledge our horizon extends as well.......
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