# Quote — Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love

> “I'm still learning English. By the naturalistic method the way a child learns his milk language. No grammar, no syntax, no dictionary — just listen and talk and read it. Acquire new words by context. By that method I acquired a feeling that ‘love' means the shared ecstasy that can be attained through sex. Is that right?”
>
> “Son, I hate to say this — because, if you've been reading a lot of English, I see how you reached that opinion — but you are one hundred percent wrong.”

- Author: [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md)
- Book: [Time Enough For Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love.md)
- Page: 122
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love/im-still-learning

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> It is hard to shake off any taboos a child is indoctrinated with in his earliest years. Even if he learns later that they are nonsense.

p. 445 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love/it-is-hard.md)

> Natural laws have no pity.

p. 351 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love/natural-laws-have.md)

> Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, the execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

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