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 wife nurse
A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.
learning long live-and-learn
Live and learn, or you don't live long.
stupid ignorance forever
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
ideas firsts delusion
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
grateful smell widows
Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.
atheism records doe
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.
stars honesty believe
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.
beauty world waste
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
girl moving past
Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.
beauty beautiful she-is-beautiful
Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.
world add cost
Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
accountability wonderful dependability
Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.
truth fool sadistic
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
faith intellectual negative
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.