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
flower butterfly self
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
education teaching learning
When one teaches, two learn.
future past history
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
courage fear men
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
wisdom men interesting
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
dirty men never-settle
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.
atheist gun society
An armed society is a polite society.
psychological faster contracts
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.
power sight black
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.
wisdom philosophy yield
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
long lazarus ifs
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)
civilization atheism polite
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
cells two-sides people
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
race people desire
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.