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The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get

The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.

Robert A. Heinlein
Silly, Men, Self
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.135, Penguin

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

Robert A. Heinlein
Knows
Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

Robert A. Heinlein
Funny, Forgiveness, Witty

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

Robert A. Heinlein
Men, Race, Insects

We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.

Robert A. Heinlein
Hands, Challenges, Brain

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

Robert A. Heinlein
Real, Snakes, Oil
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

Robert A. Heinlein
Stars, Rolling, Stones

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

Robert A. Heinlein
Stupid, Animal, Men

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

Robert A. Heinlein
Success, Stronger, News
"This I Believe". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

Robert A. Heinlein
Real, Writing, Ulysses

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

Robert A. Heinlein
Sex, Business, Growing Up
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.

Robert A. Heinlein
Daughter, Men, Law
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.208, Penguin

Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

Robert A. Heinlein
Race, Space, Way

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Robert A. Heinlein
Morning, Years, Week

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

Robert A. Heinlein
Growing Up, Thinking, Cynical
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.358, Penguin

If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

Robert A. Heinlein
Divinity, Assuming, Satan

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

Robert A. Heinlein
Luxury, Happy Marriage, Ingredients

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

Robert A. Heinlein
Sweet, Kissing, Snakes
Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.232, Hachette UK

Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

Robert A. Heinlein
Want
Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

It's better to copulate than not.

Robert A. Heinlein

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Robert A. Heinlein
Long, Lazarus, Ifs

It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

Robert A. Heinlein
God, Fall, Cat

It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

Robert A. Heinlein
Lying, Long, Wish
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.29, Penguin

And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.

Robert A. Heinlein
People, Laughing

Gentlemen, let's go row!

Robert A. Heinlein
Gentleman, Rowing

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