“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book Glory Road

Glory Road (1963)
Context: Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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