Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Robert A. Heinlein

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein

Another, Word, Magic

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

Government, Sense, Universe

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Alive, Anyone

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.
Robert A. Heinlein

Real, Strange, Wonderful

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Robert A. Heinlein

Time, Best, Travel

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein

Anyone, Cat, Protocol

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein

Gossip, Room, Sit

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein

Help, Black, Dark

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Good, Beautiful, Humanity

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein

Politeness, Non, Sine

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein

Person, Yes, Clothing

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein

Science, Between, While

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Long, Worry, Theory

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein

Food, Science, Him

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.
Robert A. Heinlein

History, Science, Done

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 7, 1907

Died: May 8, 1988

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