The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.
Robert A. HeinleinDaughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. Thatโs a law of nature, to be known henceforth as โHarshawโs Law.
Robert A. HeinleinThe difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. HeinleinThere are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" : but beavers and their dams are.
Robert A. Heinlein