Robert Heinlein on Logic

Crushed under work today, but here’s a quote that deserves remembering, from an obscure but often charming book by Robert Heinlein called Glory Road:

Logic is a way of saying that anything that didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow.

Could this be part of the reason that self-styled conservatives have so much trouble with the concept of global warming? That it strikes them as illogical, regardless of what the science says?

Just a thought. 

[The quote comes from early in the book, Chapter Five, shortly after Heinlein’s narrator/hero wakes to find himself on another planet.]

Published by Kit Stolz

I'm a freelance reporter and writer based in Ventura County.

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