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
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.
love sex exercise
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
morning years week
The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.
beautiful motivation men
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
thinking effort matter
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.
church thrive persecution
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
life evil cold
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ems pay attention
Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
consistency mind logic
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
interest disinterested suspicious
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
random-chance facts pot
Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.