A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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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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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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Never insult anyone by accident.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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