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Way Quotes by 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 I assume that…
- Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
- I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run…
- Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt.…
- Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way…
- A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
- I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and…
- I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no…
- Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
- There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important,…
- Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the…
- There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so…
- Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
- Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the…
- Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If…
- English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English…
- The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period…
- The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings…
- Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being…
- There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
- I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries…
- I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
- He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He…
- Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
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