Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
Robert A. HeinleinTo stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
Robert A. HeinleinPhysicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worseโwithout examining evidence which their โcommon senseโ told them was impossible.
Robert A. HeinleinMen rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Robert A. HeinleinI also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
Robert A. Heinlein