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
sight fake kicking
A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
country people volunteer
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!
binary ten
I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.
survivor
There will always be survivors.
mark ifs
The marks won't listen if it's free.
hope disappointment ambition
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
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.
communication practice revolution
...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.
summer hope ambition
He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.
demand certain persons
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
school ethics formal
I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
children luxury perfect
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.
believe crafts honest
I believe in the honest craft of workmen.
mean too-short chains
It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.