Being kissed by Wyoming Knott is more definite than being married to most women.
Science fiction” means different things to different people. “When I make a word do a lot of work like that,” said Humpty Dumpty, “I always pay it extra” – in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime.
The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily.
Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal – else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.
Because revolution – armed uprising – requires not only dissatisfaction but aggressiveness. A revolutionist has to be willing to fight and die – or he’s just a parlor pink. If you separate out the aggressive ones and make them the sheep dogs, the sheep will never give you trouble.
Acting per se, like all art, is a process of abstracting, of retaining only significant detail. But in impersonation any detail can be significant.
Math is hard work and it occupies your mind – and it doesn’t hurt to learn all you can of it, no matter what rank you are; everything of any importance is founded on mathematics.
Anywhere is home to the man with a fat bank account – the cops leave him alone.
War is a simple matter compared with revolution. War is an applied science, with well-defined principles tested in history; analogous solutions may be found from ballista to H-bomb. But every revolution is a freak, a mutant, a monstrosity, its conditions never to be repeated and its operations carried out by amateurs and individualists.
Nevertheless, once you pick up a stray cat and feed it, you cannot abandon it. Self-love forbids it. The cat’s welfare becomes essential to your own peace of mind – even when it’s a bloody nuisance not to break faith with the cat.
When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.
That’s what I was trying to find out when we were rushed off on this damned safari. They have unusual intestinal flora and it may have something to do with that. But I think it has to do with the fact that they never stop growing.
Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
The fact is I am a compulsive reader. Thirty-five cents’ worth of Gold Medal Original will put me right to sleep. Or Perry Mason. But I’ll read the ads in an old Paris-Match that has been used to wrap herring before I’ll do without.
More depended on the student than on the school.
The universe will let us know – later – whether or not Man has any “right” to expand through it. In.
These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves.
They want to use him, make him geek.
Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.
You can’t believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.