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Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going.
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. Logic proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
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Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.
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God created men to test the souls of women.
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There are no dangerous weapons there are only dangerous men.
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Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
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The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
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The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.
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I don't know Who is cranking I'm pleased He doesn't stop.
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Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
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Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
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One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
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Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.
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Democracy is a poor system of government at best the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
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The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.
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Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
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Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
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I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
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No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
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