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" I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours. "

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" Science is magic that works. "

" Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. "

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" I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. "

" Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. "

" Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. "

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" About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. "

" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "

" I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. "

" It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. "

" I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. "

" I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. "

" There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look. "

" I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. "

" Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee. "

" This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. "

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" People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. "

" Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be. "

" There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. "

" As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. "

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" New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. "

" People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. "

" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. "

" Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951. "

" The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. "

" I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. "

" I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. "

" If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. "