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
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it… — 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
