6 Robert A. Heinlein Quotes on Logic

Robert A. Heinlein quotes on logic

6. The whole principle is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.

9. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

34. Logic is a feeble reed, friend. 'Logic' proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

85. God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.

131. The phrase 'we (I) (you) simply must -' designates some thing that need not be done. 'That goes without saying' is a red warning. 'Of course' means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.

135. The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.