Quotes About Hubbard

The ceremony, likely aided by narcotics and hallucinogens, required Hubbard to channel the female deity of Babalon as Parsons performed the "invocation of wand with material basis on talisman"—in other words, masturbating on a piece of parchment. He typically invoked twice a night.

Habitually, and perhaps unconsciously, Hubbard would fill this gap—between reality and his interpretation of it—with mythology. This was the source of what some call his genius and others call his insanity. WHEN

The Borough of Manhattan gratefully declared March 13 (Hubbard's birthday), 2004, as "Hubbard Detoxification Day.

Hubbard says there are actually two separate genetic lines that, in the history of evolution, first came together in the mollusk

One of our measurement mentors, Enrico Fermi, was an early user of what was later called a "Monte Carlo simulation.

Old mother HubbardWent to the cupboard,To fetch her poor dog a bone;But when she came thereThe cupboard was bare,And so the poor dog had none.

Hubbard had this incredible dynamism, a disarming, magnetic and overwhelming personality.

I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley

During Prohibition, Hubbard drove a taxi in Seattle, but that appears to have been a cover: in the trunk of his cab he kept a sophisticated ship-to-shore communications system he used to guide bootleggers seeking to evade the Coast Guard. Hubbard was eventually busted by the FBI and spent eighteen months in prison on a smuggling charge.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.

The baby boom eventually prompted Hubbard to order that no one could get pregnant without his permission; according to several Sea Org members, any woman disobeying his command would be "off-loaded" to another Scientology organization or flown to New York for an abortion.

Hubbard mentions an organization he calls SMERSH, a name taken from James Bond novels. Hubbard describes it as a "hidden government …that aspired to world domination!" Psychiatry is the dominating force behind this sinister institution.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.