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== Quotes in works by Robert A. Heinlein == |
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{{quote|Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.|'''Assignment in Eternity (1953)'''}} |
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{{quote|Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.|'''Double Star (1956)'''}} |
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{{quote|Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.|'''Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)'''}} |
{{quote|Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.|'''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]] (1961)'''}} |
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== Quotes about Robert A. Heinlein == |
== Quotes about Robert A. Heinlein == |
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Latest revision as of 22:32, 24 July 2018
Quotes in works by Robert A. Heinlein
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
—Doctor Pinero, Life Line, 1939
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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
—Logic of Empire (1941), Precursor to Hanlon's Razor
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Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
—Assignment in Eternity (1953)
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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)
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Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
—The Rolling Stones (1952)
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Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
—Double Star (1956)
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Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
—Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
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Quotes about Robert A. Heinlein
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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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