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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
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and
dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
--Robert A. Heinlein
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at
tax collectors... and miss.
--Robert A. Heinlein
Does history record any case in which the majority
was right?
--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
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with
its credibility. And vice versa.
--Robert A. Heinlein
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
--Robert A. Heinlein
You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
--Robert A. Heinlein
When the need arises - and it does - you must be
able to shoot your own dog.
--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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