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Robert Anson Heinlein, né le 7 juillet 1907 à Butler dans le Missouri et mort le 8 mai 1988 à Carmel-sur-mer en Californie, est un écrivain de science-fiction américain.

Écrivain engagé, son influence sur l'imaginaire nucléaire et spatial américain a marqué l'histoire technique de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle[réf. souhaitée].

✵ 7. juillet 1907 – 8. mai 1988  •  Autres noms Robert Heinlein, Роберт Энсон Хайнлайн
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“L'homme qui excuse un péché parce qu'il bénéficie des résultats de ce péché est coupable au même titre que celui qui le commet.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Histoire du futur

“Il est plus facile de soulever mille hommes en s'adressant à leurs préjugés que d'en convaincre un seul à l'aide de la logique.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Histoire du futur

“Je commençai à entrevoir que la base de toute tyrannie n'est pas tant la force que le secret, la dissimulation, la censure. Lorsqu'un gouvernement — ou une Église — dit à ses sujets : « Il ne faut pas lire ceci, il ne faut pas voir cela, il est interdit de savoir telle chose », il en résulte inévitablement une tyrannie, quels qu'aient été les mobiles primitifs. Il faut bien peu de force pour contrôler un homme dont l'esprit est ainsi déformé. En revanche, nulle violence ne peut venir à bout d'un esprit libre, ni la torture, ni les bombes à fission, rien… on ne peut pas soumettre un homme libre. On ne peut que le tuer.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Histoire du futur

“Si la parole d'un homme n'est pas une garantie suffisante, sa signature ne vaudra pas davantage”

Robert A. Heinlein

Histoire du futur

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“Les femmes et les chats ne feront que ce qui leur plaît, et les hommes et les chiens doivent se détendre et s'habituer à cette idée..”

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Robert A. Heinlein: Citations en anglais

“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Glory Road

Glory Road (1963)
Contexte: Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.”

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“Listen, son—most women are damn fools and children. But they’ve got more range than we’ve got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better—and the vile ones are viler.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Puppet Masters

Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 11 (p. 65)

“There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

So why fret about it?
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)

“Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“I grok in fullness.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.”

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“A managed democracy is a wonderful thing… for the managers… and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death… before they breed more hemophiliacs.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Friday

Source: Friday

“Everybody lies about sex.”

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Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

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“Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings… but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast

“A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Double Star

Source: Double Star

“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part… and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it’s 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.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre Between Planets

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 2, “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin” (p. 23)

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.”

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Robert A. Heinlein livre The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

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