Favorite Quotes from

Robert Heinlein’s Time Enough

for Love

andGerard K. O’Neill’s

The HighFrontier

“ No story teller has ever been

able to dream

up anything

as fantasti

cally unlikely as what really does

happen in this mad

universe.”

An old person

has had his nose

rubbed

in changes so

many times that

he knows it is

a moving

picture, forever

changing.”

“A young

person

sees

the world

as a still

picture,

immutabl

e.

“‘Rights’ is a physical abstraction. No one has ‘rights’, neither machine

Nor flesh-and-blood. Persons-both sorts- have opportunities, not rights,

which they use, or do not use. “

“At the most we can suggest

opportunities whose technical imperatives will

make it easier for mankind to choose peace rather than

war; diversity rather than

repression. “

“A proposal to improve the human condition

makes sense onlyif , in the long term, it has the potential to

give all people, whatever their place of birth, access to the energy and

materials needed for their progress.”

“Machines are human

because they are made in

our image. They share

both our virtues and our faults—

magnified.”

“Do not handicap your children by making their life easy.”

“The settlement of

space by humans could

be carried out without

ever exceeding

the limits of the

technology of this decade.”

“Work is not an end in itself. There must always be time

enough for love.”

“Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don’t worry about

it… face each sunrise as a fresh creation and

live for it joyously.”