Another man Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Another man Engineering Magic Miracles
Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern… — John Nevil Maskelyne Copy Share Image
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer. — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I continue to say that I wish we had another word other than magic. It no longer means what we are doing or we… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
The idea to have both something that belongs to what we call supernatural and, at the same time, is anchored in the real world,… — Olivier Assayas Copy Share Image
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition,… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
“Magick is not a supernatural power granted by spirits or demons. True magick is a natural power which exists in every person, and we… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I took ten days off and by 11 o’clock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read all the newspapers… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
One day I woke up and Juventus wanted me, another Manchester United and what I know is that there were approaches made. But an… — Raul Jimenez Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“One theory on cannibals, of course, is that they eat parts of their slain enemies to benefit from that person's greatest assets - their… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If you aren't in love, Willow Vaughn, then my name isn't Miriam Brigham." Willow started out of her daydreaming and glanced up from the… — Charlotte McPherren Copy Share Image
“Hell, I bet there's another man right now on the other side of this planet, standing in the pouring rain, fighting desperately for the… — EL Montes Copy Share Image
The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become. — Dan Payne Copy Share Image
Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to… — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
