„Hüte dich vor Selbstlosigkeit! Sie basiert auf Selbsttäuschung, der Quelle allen Übels.“
Time Enough For Love, 1973
Geburtstag: 7. Juli 1907
Todesdatum: 8. Mai 1988
Andere Namen: Robert Heinlein, Роберт Энсон Хайнлайн
Robert Anson Heinlein war ein amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller.
Time Enough For Love, 1973
— Robert Anson Heinlein, buch Life-Line
Life-Line, 1939
Time Enough For Love, 1973
— Robert A. Heinlein, buch The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Gwen Novak (Hazel Stone); chapter 18, p. 230
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
Kontext: The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it — once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.
— Robert A. Heinlein, buch Methuselah's Children
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
— Robert A. Heinlein, buch Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Quelle: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 3
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love (1973)