I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I was not giving answers. I was trying to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children-… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You… — 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
