One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever insult anyone by accident.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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