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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

Men rarely manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Specialization is for insects.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.

The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in the field. The unicorn approaches her, and resting in her lap, is so taken.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to do what it sets out to do. a factory where this year's product is invariably sleazier than last year's but, nevertheless, better than next year's. Imagine a corporation whose executives are always spending vast sums of money on studies designed to discover just what it is they are supposed to do and then vaster sums for further studies on just how to do it. Imagine a plant devoted to the manufacture of factory seconds to be sold at a loss. Imagine a producer of vacuum cleaners that rarely work hiring whole platoons of engineers who will, in time, report that it is, in fact, true that the vacuum cleaners rarely really work, and who will, for a larger fee, be glad to find out why, if that's possible. If you discover some such outfit, don't invest in it. Unfortunately, we are all required to invest in public education.