Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Science
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Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
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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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Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
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There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
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