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" One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. "

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" It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. "

" By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. "

" Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. "

" Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. "

" You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. "

" It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. "

" Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. "

" The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. "

" Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. "

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" Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. "

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" Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. "

" Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. "

" To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. "

" One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. "

" Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. "

" When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. "

" May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. "

" One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. "

" Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. "

" No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. "

" Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. "

" The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. "

" One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. "