Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
Robert A. HeinleinExpertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
Robert A. HeinleinGet a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
Robert A. HeinleinDemocracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
Robert A. HeinleinNo matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.
Robert A. Heinlein