The mind’s ability to rationalize it’s own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.
There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself.
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man – man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
My old man taught me two things: ‘Mind your own business’ and ‘Always cut cards.
Once you get to earth orbit, you’re halfway to anywhere in the solar system.
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.
If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.
The marks won’t listen if it’s free.
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.
There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can’t think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don’t.
In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language – and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.
The lessons of history teach us – if the lessons of history teach us anything – that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.