Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
