“The saddest aspect of life right now is…” – Isaac Asimov

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

– Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)

What does it mean?

We learn new facts and invent new things very quickly, but we are much slower to learn how to use them wisely.

Isaac Asimov: American science fiction writer and biochemist (1920–1992). Source: Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988).