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
elephants circus wells
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.
liberty politics libertarian
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
eternity century grows
It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.
military men soldier
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
wild-and-free vocal-cords vocal
My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
men matter fool
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.
gasoline enough dynamite
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.
order
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
men potatoes
Men are not potatoes!
real writing ulysses
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
sight female details
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)
silly men self
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.
baby cutting lessons
If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?
divinity assuming satan
If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.