Occupation: Science Writer Birth: July 7, 1907 Death: May 8, 1988
When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with co….
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service..
Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run..
Never insult anyone by accident..
I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-ce….
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed..
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!.
The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with - in the face of preposterous, unworkable, and e….
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor..
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….
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the sta….
There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, hara….
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion str….
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes..
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh..
I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics..
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when….
The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller..
Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile….
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of ….
It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one..