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
trying humans dies
Die trying" is the proudest human thing.
clever anger trying
Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
trying care cojones
Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.
ignorance trying fool
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
cat trying
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
gratitude trying degradation
Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.
fighting judgement trying
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
dull fact fantasy matter strange
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
authority highest history reverse science solemn until
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
girls notebooks robert wonderful
What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
cats dogs women
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
running should-have safety
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.
men months
Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.
amazing beings fighting human second strange third
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.