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Robert A. Heinlein

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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

 
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Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation ... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

 
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