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
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Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.
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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
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Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.
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Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
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A human being has no natural rights of any nature.
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It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
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A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.
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In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.
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Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
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Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.
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Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny