Words matter. These are the best Robert A. Heinlein Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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 patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Never insult anyone by accident.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Never insult anyone by accident.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.