Robert A. Heinlein Authority Quotations

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.