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. HEINLEINI don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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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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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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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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The 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.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
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