But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.
The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love. - Robert A. Heinlein
The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.
- Robert A. Heinlein
It's better to copulate than not. - Robert A. Heinlein
It's better to copulate than not.
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human … - Robert A. Heinlein
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human …
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes … - Robert A. Heinlein
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes …
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a r… - Robert A. Heinlein
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a r…
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature. - Robert A. Heinlein
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because… - Robert A. Heinlein
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because…
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - Robert A. Heinlein
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever. - Robert A. Heinlein
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
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