Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINTheologians can persuade themselves of anything.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINEverything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINA competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINWhen 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.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThey didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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 difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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. HEINLEINDon’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThe best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINNever worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINPolitical tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINIt’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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