“I’m not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein , book I Will Fear No Evil

Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 12, p. 177

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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