The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the
false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied,
evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere.
But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been
filling it - once you can honestly say, I don't know,
then it becomes possible to get at the truth.
--Robert A. Heinlein
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,/Out, far, and onward yet --
--Robert A. Heinlein The Green Hills of Earth
Knock-Knock Who's there? Armageddon Armageddon who?
Armageddon tired of all these knock-knock jokes!
--Robert A. Heinlein Farnham's Freehold
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
--Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love. (He may have gotten it elsewhere.)
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
--Robert A. Heinlein
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
--Robert A. Heinlein
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the
human race to keep all its eggs in.
--Robert A. Heinlein
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
--Robert A. Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society.
--Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon" (1948)
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.
--Robert A. Heinlein
Never try and teach a pig to sing: it's a waste of time, and it annoys the pig.
--Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.
At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes,
bathe and not make messes in the house.
--Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein)
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