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Robert Anson Heinlein – pisarz amerykański, klasyk amerykańskiej fantastyki naukowej. Znany również pod pseudonimami Anson MacDonald oraz Lyle Monroe.

✵ 7. Lipiec 1907 – 8. Maj 1988  •  Natępne imiona Robert Heinlein, Роберт Энсон Хайнлайн
Robert A. Heinlein Fotografia
Robert A. Heinlein: 568 cytatów1 Polubienie

Robert A. Heinlein słynne cytaty

„Kobiety i koty zawsze będą robić to, co chcą, a mężczyźni i psy powinni się zrelaksować i powoli oswajać z tą myślą.”

Robert A. Heinlein

„Istota ludzka powinna umieć zmieniać pieluszki, zaplanować inwazję, zarżnąć wieprza, sterować statkiem, zaprojektować budynek, napisać sonet, prowadzić księgę rachunkową, zbudować mur, nastawić złamanie, pocieszyć umierającego, dawać rozkazy, przyjmować rozkazy, działać w grupie, działać samemu, rozwiązywać równania, analizować nowe problemy, roztrząsać nawóz, zaprogramować komputer, ugotować smaczny posiłek, walczyć skutecznie, umrzeć bohatersko. Specjalizacja jest dla insektów.”

Robert A. Heinlein

„Nigdy nie odwołuj się do lepszej natury człowieka – być może wcale jej nie ma. Zawsze podkreślaj, że masz na względzie jego interes.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Postać: Lazarus Long

„Demokracja nie może się sprawdzić. Wszędzie są matematycy, wieśniacy i zwierzęta – tak więc demokracja, teoria oparta na założeniu, że matematycy i wieśniacy są równi, nigdy się nie sprawdza. Mądrości nie można sumować – jej maksimum mierzy się mądrością najbystrzejszego członka danej grupy.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Źródło: Szlak Chwały, Postać: Rufo

Robert A. Heinlein cytaty

„Bastion wiedzy opiera się na trzech filarach: historii, językach i matematyce. Wyposażony w te trzy rzeczy możesz nauczyć się czegokolwiek chcesz. Lecz jeśli któregoś ci brakuje, jesteś kolejnym ciemnym prostakiem w zagnojonych gumofilcach.”

Robert A. Heinlein

„Na pewno nigdy nie znajdziecie wroga w matce, jeśli w porę pochwalicie jej dziecko.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Źródło: Drzwi do lata

„Bądź czujna, dopóki nie wiesz, którędy uciekać.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Źródło: Piętaszek

Robert A. Heinlein: Cytaty po angielsku

“The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, One Meter Wide and Two Meters Long.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka The Number of the Beast

Źródło: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 508

“He seeks order, not truth. Suppose truth defies order, will he accept it? Will you? I think not.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Life-Line

Life-Line (p. 16)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Źródło: To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987), p. 305 (1988 Ace reprint; ISBN 9780441748600)

““The Great Egg must love human beings, he made a lot of them.”
“Same argument applies to oysters, only more so.””

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Beyond This Horizon

Źródło: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 13, “No more privacy than a guppy in an aquarium”, p. 127

“The death rate is the same for us as for anybody … one person, one death, sooner or later.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Tunnel in the Sky

Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Captain Helen Walker, Ch. 2

“His bow to me must have been calculated on a slide rule; it suggested that I was about to be Supreme Minister but was not quite there yet, that I was his senior but nevertheless a civilian — then subtract five degrees for the fact that he wore the Emperor’s aiguillette on his right shoulder.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Double Star

Double Star (1956)

“They made the predictable fuss about taking a cat into a room and an autobellhop is not responsive to bribes—hardly an improvement. But the assistant manager had more flexibility in his synapses; He listened to reason as long as it was crisp and rustled.”

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Źródło: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 12

“Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.)”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Richard Ames; chapter 16, p. 200
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won’t be wrong too often.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka The Number of the Beast

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

““Sharpie, you’ve got a one-track mind.”
“It’s the main track. Reproduction is the main track; the methods and mores of sexual copulation are the central feature of all higher developments of life.”
“You’re ignoring money and television.”
“Piffle! All human activities including scientific research are either mating dances and care of the young, or the dismal sublimations of born losers in the only game in town.””

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Robert A. Heinlein książka The Number of the Beast

Źródło: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XI : “—citizens must protect themselves.”, p. 100

“No philosopher allows his opinions to be swayed by facts—he would be kicked out of his guild. Theologians, the lot of them.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka The Number of the Beast

Źródło: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter VI : Are men and women one race?, p. 54

““Peewee!” I said sharply. “You're not listening.”
“What were you doing talking,” she answered reasonably, “when I wasn’t listening?””

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Źródło: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 10

“I hadn’t learned much in high school; I had majored in girls.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka The Number of the Beast

Źródło: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 81

“Since when did a mathematician need any tools but his own head? Pythagoras had done well enough with a stick and a stretch of sand.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Beyond This Horizon

Źródło: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 4, “Boy meets Girl”, p. 45

“I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy…censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka If This Goes On

If This Goes On— (p. 401)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“The answer to any question starting, "Why don't they—" is almost always, "Money."”

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Robert A. Heinlein

Shooting Destination Moon (1950)

“The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Revolt in 2100

Revolt in 2100 (1953), postscript

“I don’t believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka The Puppet Masters

Źródło: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 158)

“Never Do Yesterday What Should Be Done Tomorrow.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka "—All You Zombies—"

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

“Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Space Cadet

Źródło: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 10 “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?”, p. 126

“I carried out my purpose: War and Peace, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and so forth. Would you believe it? Something is gained in translation; the originals are even more depressing and soporific than translations. I’m not sure what purpose Russian fiction has, but it can’t be entertainment.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka The Number of the Beast

Źródło: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XIX : Something is gained in translation—, p. 166

“At fourteen months he began speaking in sentences, short and of his own structure, but sentences. The subjects of his conversation, or, rather, his statements, were consistently egocentric. Normal again—no one expects an infant to write essays on the beauties of altruism.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Beyond This Horizon

Źródło: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 131

“I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to laugh than cry.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka I Will Fear No Evil

Źródło: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 25, p. 442

“At that point I realized that I had been thinking in Russian. It’s a wonderful language for paranoid thoughts.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka The Number of the Beast

Źródło: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XIX : Something is gained in translation—, p. 166

“The best things in history are accomplished by people who get “tired of being shoved around.””

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Źródło: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 12

“A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka I Will Fear No Evil

Źródło: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 14, p. 224

“The truth of a proposition has little or nothing to do with its psychodynamics. The notion that ‘truth will prevail’ is merely a pious wish; history doesn’t show it.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Methuselah's Children

Methuselah’s Children (p. 606)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“I dictated my report; forty recruitments all okayed by the Psych Bureau — counting my own, which I knew would be okayed. I was here, wasn't I? Then I taped a request for assignment to operations; I was sick of recruiting.”

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Robert A. Heinlein książka "—All You Zombies—"

"—All You Zombies—" (1958)

““If there was anything, anything more at all, after this crazy mix-up we call living, I could feel that there might be some point to the whole frantic business, even if I did not know and could not know the full answer while I was alive.”
“And suppose there was not? Suppose that when a man’s body disintegrates, he himself disappears absolutely. I’m bound to say I find it a probable hypothesis.”
“Well— It wouldn’t be cheerful knowledge, but it would be better than not knowing. You could plan your life rationally, at least. A man might even be able to get a certain amount of satisfaction in planning things better for the future, after he’s gone. A vicarious pleasure in the anticipation.””

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Beyond This Horizon

Źródło: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 10, “—the only game in town”, p. 105

““You know the answers, but just between ourselves, that sketch smells a bit. It’s sloppy.”
“I never did have any artistic talent,” Art said defensively. “I’d rather take a photograph any day.”
“You’ve taken too many photographs, maybe. As for artistic talent, I haven’t any either, but I learned to sketch. Look, Art—the rest of you guys get this, too—if you can’t sketch, you can’t see. If you really see what you’re looking at, you can put it down on paper, accurately. If you really remember what you have looked at, you can sketch it accurately from memory.”
“But the lines don’t go where I intend them to.”
“A pencil will go where you push it. It hasn’t any life of its own. The answer is practice and more practice and thinking about what you are looking at. All of you lugs want to be scientists. Well, the ability to sketch accurately is as necessary to a scientist as his slipstick. More necessary, you can get along without a slide rule.””

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Robert A. Heinlein książka Rocket Ship Galileo

Źródło: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 10, “The Method of Science”, p. 108

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