More from Robert A. Heinlein

  1. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
  2. No philosophy that he had ever heard or read gave any reasonable purpose for man's existence, nor any rational clue to his proper conduct. …
  3. Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronounc…
  4. A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
  5. Don't ask me why it was top secret, or even restricted; our government has gotten the habit of classifying anything as secret which the all…
  6. Life is short, but the years are long.
  7. Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones ar…
  8. Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

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