The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINManners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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An armed society is a polite society.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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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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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible 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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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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