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. HEINLEINSex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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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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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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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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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
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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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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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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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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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