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 never learned from a man who agreed with me.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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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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Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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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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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 human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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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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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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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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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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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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