Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 2

American - Writer July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Robert A. Heinlein

Religion Power Law Political

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Robert A. Heinlein

Me Civilization Politeness Sine

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Food Solution Isolation

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

March Fun Stop Events

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

Robert A. Heinlein

Best Time Travel Space

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Robert A. Heinlein

Universe Government Never Sense

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Robert A. Heinlein

Authority Because Made Should

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never Who Cat Dealt

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

Science Difference Other Scholarship

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Hands Writing Your Ashamed

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Robert A. Heinlein

Person See Clothing Yes

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

World Strange Fantasy Real

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

Robert A. Heinlein

Long Worry Never Theory

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Robert A. Heinlein

Gossip Your Sit Room

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

Science History Done Never

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