Occupation: Science Writer Birth: July 7, 1907 Death: May 8, 1988
Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise..
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 i….
Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens an….
Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing..
A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse..
When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't goi….
When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before..
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law..
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginab….
The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later..
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees..
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive..
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub to….
God created men to test the souls of women..
Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it cre….
Drop dead-but first get permit.
A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe..
The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception..
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a ….
Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them..
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-….