The Man Who Sold the Moon / Orphans of the Sky Quotes

“Being “up to something” was the unnamable and unforgiveable crime for which any American male could be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced in one breath. He wondered how things had gotten rigged so that the male half of the race must always behave to suit feminine rules and feminine logic, like a snotty-nosed school boy in front of a stern teacher.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky

“Eighty million steel juggernauts, operated by imperfect human beings at high speeds, are more destructive than war.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky

“from George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra: “Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky

“It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.” —L. Sprague de Camp”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky

“George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra: “Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky

“But it is a great and wonderful age, the most wonderful this giddy planet has yet seen. It is sometimes comic, too often tragic, and always wonderful. Our wildest dreams of the future will be surpassed by what lies in front of us. Come bad, come good, I want to take part in the show as long as possible.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky