1,085 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

Working because you want to is the best sort of play.

It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.