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
artist robert
A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A
fair love notebooks robert
All's fair in love and war-what a contemptible lie! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
reeds logic
Logic is a feeble reed, friend.
elderly done fields
If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.
moon men thinking
Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
men intellectual religion
But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.
ends
Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.
play want
Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
trying humans dies
Die trying" is the proudest human thing.
stronger news aging
Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.
morning should-have bird
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
clever anger trying
Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
sex lying everybody-lies
Everybody lies about sex.
sex growing-up business
Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)