Science Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

“Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

— Robert A. Heinlein

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

— Robert A. Heinlein

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

— Robert A. Heinlein

In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“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

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

— Robert A. Heinlein

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“An apostate scientist, a kidnapped scientist, a dull peasant, a two-headed monster, an apple-brained moron -- five knives, counting Joe-Jim as one;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The most difficult speculation for a science fiction writer to undertake is to imagine correctly the *secondary* implications of a new factor.…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world…

— Robert A. Heinlein