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
men littles little-man
Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
sex friendly toys
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
funny boys fire
If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.
love sex nice
On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.
kindness cities america
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
life littles enough
The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
life minutes
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
moral-behavior survival fiction
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
love may way
A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
cutting cards losing
Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.
sex
It is better to copulate than never.
running water stupidity
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
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.
running thinking self
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.