It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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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.
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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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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
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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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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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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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