Occupation: Science Writer Birth: July 7, 1907 Death: May 8, 1988
I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey..
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.].
You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him..
Analogy is even slipperier than logic..
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?.
Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage..
Life is short, but the years are long..
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians….
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they ….
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs..
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something..
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on ….
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition w….
But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth..
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so wid….
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormousl….
If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry..
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents..
Once a month, some women act like men act all the time..
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that….
Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirti….