Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Years, Survival

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.93, Penguin

• 'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Degrees, Savages, Evolution

• Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Grief, Fall, People

• Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wind, Moral Behavior, Meat

  "Expanded Universe". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1980.

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