Robert Anson Heinlein Zitate (573 Zitate, seite 9)

In a live interview with Walter Cronkite of CBS News, on the day of the first moonwalk (20 July 1969)
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century, Volume I (1907–1949): Learning Curve (2010)

“Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Space Cadet

Quelle: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 15 “Pie With a Fork”, p. 180

“Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)

“Gravity’s books have got to balance.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Farmer in the Sky

Quelle: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 17, “Disaster” (p. 177)

“Sometimes I think,” he told Tex, “that Th’Wing thinks that I am an idiot studying hard to become a moron—but flunking the course.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Space Cadet

Quelle: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 16 “P.R.S. Astarte”, p. 195

“I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

Quelle: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 10

“Don’t pay any attention to what she says. Half of it’s always wrong and she doesn’t mean the rest.”

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The Menace from Earth (p. 351)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“Babies are fun. And they’re not much trouble. Feed ‘em occasionally, help them when they need it, and love them a lot. That’s all there is to it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Beyond This Horizon

Quelle: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 7, “Burn him down at once—”, p. 75

“Son, suppose you tend to your knitting and I tend to mine.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Double Star

Double Star (1956)

“Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

Quelle: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 2

“I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch I Will Fear No Evil

Quelle: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 27, p. 473

“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”

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Quelle: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5

“Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

Waldo & Magic, Inc. (1950)

“Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it causes him to wonder if women are necessary. If you always get his breakfast and don’t raise controversial issues until after his second cup of coffee, you can get away with murder the rest of the time. They don’t notice other odors when they smell bacon.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch The Number of the Beast

Quelle: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter V : “—a wedding ring is not a ring in my nose—”, p. 41

“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Quelle: Time Enough for Love: the lives of Lazarus Long; a novel , (1973), p. 366

“By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget—especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself—that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

Quelle: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 8

“He considered horoscopes as silly as spectacles on a cow.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Between Planets

Quelle: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 4, “The Glory Road” (p. 43)

“The Almighty-God idea came under attack because it explained nothing; it simply pushed all explanations one stage farther away. In the nineteenth century atheistic positivism started displacing the Almighty-God notion in that minority of the population that bathed regularly. Atheism had a limited run, as it, too, explains nothing, being merely Godism turned upside down.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Quelle: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), p. 564

“Never listen to newscasts. Saves wear and tear on the nervous system.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Red Planet

Quelle: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 2, “South Colony, Mars”, p. 17

“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Starman Jones

Quelle: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)

“Like searching at midnight in a dark cellar for a black cat that isn’t there.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Starman Jones

Quelle: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 115)

“Mercifully, we stay our hand. Earth’s cities will not be bombed. The free citizens of Venus Republic have no wish to slaughter their cousins still on Terra. Our only purpose is to establish our own independence, to manage our own affairs, to throw off the crushing yoke of absentee ownership and taxation without representation which has bleed us poor.
In doing so, in so taking our stand as free men, we call on all oppressed and impoverished nations everywhere to follow our lead, accept our help. Look up into the sky! Swimming there above you is the very station from which I now address you. The fat and stupid rulers of the Federation have made of Circum-Terra an overseer’s whip. The threat of this military base in the sky has protected their empire from the just wrath of their victims for more then five score years.
We now crush it.
In a matter of minutes this scandal in the clean skies, this pistol pointed at the heads of men everywhere on your planet, will cease to exist. Step out of doors, watch the sky. Watch a new sun blaze briefly, and know that its light is the light of Liberty inviting all of Earth to free itself.
Subject peoples of Earth, we free men of the free Republic of Venus salute you with that sign!”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Between Planets

Quelle: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 6, “The Sign in the Sky” (p. 74) - Speech given before the destruction of the nuclear-armed satellite Circum-Terra.

“Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch Double Star

Double Star (1956)

“I knew that the stupidest students, the silliest professors, and the worst bull courses are concentrated in schools of education.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch The Number of the Beast

Quelle: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 82

“One can’t expect logic from males; they think with their testicles and act from their emotions.”

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Robert A. Heinlein buch The Number of the Beast

Quelle: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXIX : Random Numbers, p. 385