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  • #1
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “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.”
    Robert A. Heinlein
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  • #2
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #3
    Douglas Adams
    “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #4
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #5
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #8
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    robert heinlein

  • #9
    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
    Robert J. Hanlon

  • #10
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #11
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

  • #15
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #16
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #17
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #18
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #19
    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

  • #20
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love



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