The Number of the Beast Quotes

“Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?”
― Robert A. Heinlein , The Number of the Beast

“A man who bets on greed an dishonesty won't be wrong too often.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast

“The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything from it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast

“There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that’s philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to see a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that’s science. Three: Awareness that you live in a malevolent universe controlled by Murphy’s Law, sometimes offset”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“If God displaces the Devil, he must assume the Devil’s attributes.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“We lived here a while. No annex then, had to have an armed guard just to pee.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Random’ and ‘chance’ are not related. ‘Random chance’ is a nonsense expression”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Where you go, I go. Today and to the end of our lives. Unless you tell me to get out, that you don’t want me anymore. I have spoken.” “You certainly have, dear. Hilda?”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Jacob, even though I find it necessary to leave you … I love and respect you … and will always listen to you.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Oh, no, Sharpie. I’ve stood my watch; it’s somebody else’s turn. Now that you have resigned, we have no organization.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Sir, every nation is capable of atrocities, including our own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Without Gay, without her ability to do a Drunkard’s Walk, we could have searched that planet for a lifetime, and never found either colony.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Hilda my love, for a scouting expedition the situation becomes equivalent to a craft in motion. Again we require a captain.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“(All the more reason to conduct drill as realistically as possible. Jake or I, one of us, is honor bound to stay alive to take care of two women and unborn children; exterminating ‘Black-Hat’ vermin holds a poor second to that.)”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“One night I had been forced to reason with my darling; Hilda felt that I should lead our little band. I was oldest,”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“should not change geological features appreciably and placement of cities is largely controlled by geography.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Zeb should command while Jacob handled space-time controls—to each his own. Jacob had asked me to please take orders from Zeb with no back talk … which had miffed me a little.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“killers don’t look like killers; they look like people.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Undine.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Your computers must be three-phase A.C.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Interregnum”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won’t be wrong too often.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“We’re trying to apply Clarke’s Law.” “I don’t recall it. Maybe it was while I was out with mumps.” “Arthur C. Clarke,” Pop told her. “Great man—too bad he was liquidated in The Purge.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“history is loaded with “scientists” jumping to conclusions from superficial evidence.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Mmm, a futile discussion. So my problem child is adequate?” “Well … he’s not a member of the Ku Klux Klan—” “I never thought he was! Zebbie isn’t that sort.” “—but he’s a wizard under a sheet!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Satyriasis.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

“Discipline—self-discipline; there is no other sort.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Number of the Beast: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes