Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
thinking hands disaster
Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
leader democracy faults
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
women years mind
In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.
truth fool sadistic
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
accountability wonderful dependability
Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.
beauty beautiful she-is-beautiful
Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.
motivational memories men
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.
thinking police citizens
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
hands challenges brain
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.
ignorance trying fool
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
running water stupidity
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
old-friends way doe
Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.
sex
It is better to copulate than never.
two race normal
All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.