Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI never learned from a man who agreed with me.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINBy cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINAnyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTo 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. HEINLEINJealousy 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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThey didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINDon’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINAn armed society is a polite society.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINA society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN