Ademoğlu hayvanların geri kalanından özde nasıl ayrılıyordu? Kendi kendine havalanabilen (Tanrı bilir daha başka neler yapabilen) bir ırk sadece mühendislikle etkilenebilir miydi? Eğer öyleyse Assuan Barajı mı yoksa binlerce kilometrelik mercan kayalıkları mı birincilik ödülünü kazanırdı? İnsan'ın bilinci mi? Saf, yerel kibir; dev sekoya ağaçlarının ya da ispermeçet balinalarının insanları fazlasıyla aşan birer filozof ya da şair olmadıklarına hiçbir kanıt yoktu.


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Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic?
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethin...
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
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The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
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Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
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Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
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The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
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Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
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The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acqu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly c...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth ...
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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...
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afte...
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How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
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The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on...
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People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
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Beds do not matter, it is who is in a bed that counts.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
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They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist...
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger ...
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I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of go...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...
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Elephants aren't human but they are very nice people.
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If you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. and, if you sha...
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Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a de...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
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There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who...
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He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later tha...
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The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has even...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not ins...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government o...
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Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!
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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
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Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings ...
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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man b...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for...
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To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the ...
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most am...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
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When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things
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Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to se...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. The...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
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A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurtin...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Everybody lies about sex.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
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Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
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If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Live and learn, or you don't live long.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
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Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There is no such thing as "Just a cat.
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Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Television leaves no external scars.
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Some people insist that ‘mediocre’ is better than ‘best.’ They delight in clipping wings bec...
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Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
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You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.
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The Mother Thing makes our world.
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Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
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More depended on the student than on the school.
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Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
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I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.
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