Ocupation: Science writer
Life: July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988
Birthday: July 7
Death: May 8
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
source: Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.277, Macmillan
topic: Animal, Men, Wisest Man, Additives