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„See how involved it gets? Clover, bees, nitrogen, escape speed, power, plant-animal balance, gas laws, compound interest laws, meteorology—a mathematical ecologist has to think of everything and think of it ahead of time. Ecology is explosive; what seems like a minor and harmless invasion can change the whole balance.“
„Man needs freedom, but few men are so strong as to be happy with complete freedom. A man needs to be part of a group, with accepted and respected relationships. Some men join foreign legions for adventure; still more swear on a bit of paper in order to acquire a framework of duties and obligations, customs and taboos, a time to work and a time to loaf, a comrade to dispute with and a sergeant to hate—in short, to belong.“
„I expect this to be my last venture in this field; ’tain’t worth the grief“
„Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man’s evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.“
„Oh, we get along. She lets me have my own way, and later I find out I’ve done just what she wanted me to do.“
„An invention is something that was “impossible” up to then—that’s why governments grant patents.“
„It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.“
„I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.“
„Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.“
„If at Last You Do Succeed, Never Try Again.“
„Friday, don’t despise assassins indiscriminately. As with any tool, merit or demerit lies in how it is used.“
„I learned before you were born that when someone wants to see me in a hurry, the urgency is almost never mutual.“
„“What sort of a remark?”“Just priestly mumbo-jumbo. Impressive and no real meaning. Can you do it?”“I think so—I used to sell magazine subscriptions.”“
„High I. Q., good compatibility index, superior education—everything that makes a person pleasant and easy and interesting to have around.“
„There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.“
„There is one thing no head of a country can know, and that is: how good is his intelligence system? He finds out only by having it fail him.“
„Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.“
„All men are created unequal.“
„A Paradox May Be Paradoctored.“
„What we think of as ‘Physical beauty’ is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness—intelligence—among them.“
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