Robert A. Heinlein/Quotes

Quotes in works by Robert A. Heinlein
"How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?"

- Doctor Pinero, Life Line, 1939

"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."

- Logic of Empire (1941), Precursor to Hanlon's Razor

"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."

- Assignment in Eternity (1953)

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is 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."

- The Rolling Stones (1952)

"Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events."

- The Rolling Stones (1952)

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

- Double Star (1956)

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

- Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

Quotes about Robert A. Heinlein
"He knows I'm a flipped-out freak and still he helped me and my wife when we were in trouble. That is the best in humanity, there; that is who and what I love."

- Philip K. Dick, after Heinlein loaned him money to pay his taxes. (Heinlein and Dick disagreed on almost everything.)


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