Robert A. Heinlein: Trending quotes
Robert A. Heinlein trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Variant: Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
Robert A. Heinlein book The Star Beast
Source: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 3, “—An Improper Question” (p. 53)
““Die trying” is the proudest human thing.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 11
Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Gwen Novak (Hazel Stone); chapter 18, p. 230
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
Context: 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.
“Television leaves no external scars.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 3
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)