The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is fooling around--isn't… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“however the trouble with “lessons from history” is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that… — 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
